NSTL tested each OS with three different applica
tions on a Compaq Deskpro 66M and a Dell XPS P75, each with 16 MB and then 32 MB of memory. Times shown are the average for both machines. NSTL looked for 32-bit applications that run on all three OSes--finding only the DeScribe 5.0 word processor from DeScribe (Naples, FL) and the Watcom C/C++ 10.5 Compiler from the Watcom Products Division of PowerSoft (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada). The OS/2 Warp native-code counterpart to Lotus's SmartSuite 96 for Windows 95 was not ready at test time.
In testing 16-bit applications, some anomalies appeared. Lotus's Ami Pro 3.1 (now called Word Pro) runs significantly faster on Windows 95 and NT than the Lotus Ami Pro 2.1 counterpart on OS/2. But OS/2 was twice as fast as Windows 95 in the graphics printing test. With 32-bit applications, we got different results. In the Watcom C/C++ compiler test, Windows NT and OS/2 show a significant performance advantage over Windows 95. However, Windows 95 printed the DeScribe graphics more than three times faster than either
NT or OS/2.
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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