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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.233918.18253@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec29.004615.20098@netcom.com> <1992Dec29.151718.6115@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec29.164410.26667@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 23:39:18 GMT
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- In <1992Dec29.164410.26667@wam.umd.edu> crh@wam.umd.edu (Craig Hinners) writes:
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- >mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>
- >>But that isn't a matter of *WINDOWS* performance; it's a specific
- >>program. That's not what he asked about.
- >>
- >OK, I'll bite. How can you run *WINDOWS* without running a specific
- >program? Seems to me that if he was asking about *WINDOWS* performance
- >he was referring to *WINDOWS* applications, not changing the wallpaper.
-
- Ok, now tell me why it is necessary to run a package that uses a math
- coprocessor to run Windows. I can run Windows and all sorts of
- applications and never once use a math coprocessor for anything, and
- get ZERO performance increase from one.
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- Some people just really want to fight. Get a life, Craig. Then you
- won't have to stroke your ego by trying to get attention here.
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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