Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 00:23:38 01/03/01
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On January 02, 2001 at 21:26:39, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 02, 2001 at 17:14:32, John Dahlem wrote: > >>On January 02, 2001 at 16:57:54, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On January 02, 2001 at 16:41:00, John Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>>I keep reading that this is an inferior program because it is DOS. But it runs >>>>in windows, so what is the problem? Is it slower in Windows? >>>> >>> >>> >>>Just a few things off the top: >>> >>>1. Doesn't use long filenames. >>>2. Doesn't share clipboard (copy, paste) >>>3. Doesn't use standard techniques for moving/resizing windows and other GUI >>>techniques. >>> >>>Feel free to add more. >> >> >>But the actual playing strength then is not affected, only the ease of use, >>right? > >Basically, the strength should not be affected much. Some might say that >running under Windows slows it down a few percent (but so would running it in a >DOS box under Windows), but others would argue that you can gain quite a bit of >performance by recoding/compiling it as a true 32-bit app for Windows >95/98/ME/NT/2000 (as opposed to Windows 3.1, which is lipstick on DOS, i.e., 16 >bit). Rebel is a true 32bit application since a couple of years allready. It's running in protected mode, not real mode. Ernst.
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