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From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: a2r&d v apple
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Date: 5 May 91 23:00:06 GMT
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>Seriously -- I've installed Windows 3.0 on several machines, and have
>never experienced anything but smooth sailing.  Besides, many systems now
>come with Windows pre-installed, so it's becoming a non-issue.
>
>| JERRY J. SHEKHEL  | POLYGEN CORPORATION  | When I was young, I had to walk
|

You must have used standard drivers. When I installed Windows I wanted the
ehnced 800x 600 by 256 mode available (real nice look I might add). This
required a custom drive of course (OEM version of ATI Wonder card 512k). The
installation allowed this, but got lost when asking for disks. It would ask
for disk 3, but really needed #2 and then it asked for #2 but needed #4. The
half dozen files or so it asked for required me to insert each disk until it
found the file it wanted, total of about 20 disk swaps for 6 files. Once the
video driver was insstalled, it continued without a hitch.

Using it for about a month now and still don't really think it is that great.
It is OK, but most games do not run in a window and I can find no way to
download a long file and play Finest Hour at the same time. The manual is
required reading, cover to cover, if you want to anything more than is
possible from the File Manager. Ease of use is just slightly less than the
GS's Finder, but I am not certain even this is worth the 50% improvement in
performance (given that I am comparing 33MHz to 8MHz machines). Functionality
is certainly not that different.

Win3 has been hyped beyond its abilities, I find it OK, but not spectacular.
Maybe I am just spoilt by my GS?  :)  (BTW a DOS coworker actually did tell me
that)

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