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- From: millerric@urvax.urich.edu
- Subject: Paradise drivers, HD slowdown...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.151652.1235@gossip.urich.edu>
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- Reply-To: millerric@urvax.urich.edu
- Organization: University of Richmond
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 15:13:31 GMT
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- Hi.
- I just found this list, and I have a few questions.
- I'm using a Dell Precision 486SX/25 with 8MB RAM and a 120-meg HD with
- roughly 5 MB free. My video card is a Paradise with a full meg installed.
- Any reason I get worse performance under OS/2 than under Windows?
- I've installed OS/2 onto my DOS machine so that Dual Boot is enabled.
- I know this nixes HPFS, but I wanted to save my Windows installation. Good
- thing too, because as is, I have no SVGA support under OS/2, and my Windows
- apps (forced to run under WINOS2 v3.0 >:-( ) are sluggish and take forever to
- load (not to mention being forced to convert all my hard-won fonts to ATM
- format). The DOS boxes are nowhere near as speedy as I was led to believe
- (Wing Commander II barely moves...) and despite all the expensive (well, sorta)
- RAM I added (SIMMs, by the bye, are a bear to install in a Precision; you hafta
- move the power source), I'm constantly getting SWAPPER.DAT errors because of my
- limited HD space.
- Help me out, here. First, is the WINOS231 beta any good? Second, why
- does my HD take so long to get anything onscreen? Third, are there any
- Paradise SVGA drivers out there? Fourth, how can I get my Windoze apps to
- perform up to snuff?
- Thanks for the shoulder, but I want OS/2 to be the way to go and thus
- far it's only been a pain.
- Thanks and apologies of there are any FAQs here. I read them, up to
- 2.0g, and wasn't helped. (I may just be dain-bread).
- Regards,
- Rich Miller (Millerric@urvax.urich.edu or RichMiller@aol.com)
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