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Eight out of 10 of the world's personal computers could not boot up (that is to say, start) if it were not for Microsoft's operating-system software-programs like MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT. What is even more impressive (not to mention profitable) is that the company also dominates the market for almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic...
...title of Pico Iyer's fine, rich and heady first novel, Cuba and the Night (Knopf; 234 pages; $22), comes from a line of poetry written by Josa Mart?: "Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche" (Two fatherlands have I: Cuba and the night). The implication being, and it is one the novel endorses, that when the sun goes down, principles crumble away, loyalties falter, certainties dissolve. The dichotomy and the dilemma are all the stronger, one imagines, if you are not a Cuban. Iyer, who occasionally writes essays for Time, conjures up Cuba as a kind of permanent...
Sixteen-bit Windows applications--ones like Word 6.0 or Excel 5.0--will still run on the new platform, but will need to be upgraded to take full advantage of Windows 95. Why? Because only 32-bit Windows apps (and believe it or not, DOS applications) are preemptively multitasked in Windows...
Another advantage of OS/2 is its ability to run DOS and Windows programs, so Windows users have no need to buy new software to fit the new system. Windows programs may take slightly longer to start, but once started, they run as fast as before...
...fact, some DOS programs run faster, thanks to OS/2's more efficient memory management. This means that you can just add OS/2 to your existing DOS and Windows system and immediately start taking advantage of all of its advanced features. DOS and Windows programs can be multitasked as well--you can run multiple DOS and Windows programs at the same time, and more smoothly than possible in Windows...