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- From: charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US (Jeff Cogswell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
- Subject: Re: DOES A 387 HELP WIN/3.1?
- Message-ID: <iH6swB2w165w@salzo.Cary.NC.US>
- Date: Sun, 03 Jan 93 10:42:29 EST
- References: <michael.726006583@glia>
- Organization: SalzoBoard BBS
- Lines: 43
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- michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu (Michael) writes:
-
- > In <1992Dec29.151718.6115@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j
- > >In <1992Dec29.004615.20098@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) w
- > >>In <1992Dec28.185555.16798@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fre
- > >>>In <1992Dec22.194817.25666@kodak.kodak.com> thomas@acadia.Kodak.COM (Thoma
- > >>>> "A Friend" told me that an 80387 would help Windows/3.1 run faster
- > >>>> because there are a lot of floating point calculations involved.
- > >>>> Can anyone verify this?
- > >>>No, because it isn't true. A math coprocessor will do absolutely
- > >>>nothing to improve Windows performance.
- >
- > >>*Almost* true.
- >
- > >Well, no. What I said is exactly true.
- >
- > Ah but he was referring to what the first person said. And he meant that
- > the idea had merit but didn't apply in this case. You are being over
- > defensive.
- >
- > True, but this explanation does serve to explain why the reasoning may
- > be sound in many cases but not in this one. Relax. Just because someone
- > answers a question differently, doesn't mean that you need to defend your
- > first answer. No one attacked you. :)
- >
- > Michael Stanley (michael@glia.biostr.washington.edu)
-
- I'm posting this rather than mail it so everyone can see. I'm sure
- there are many other people who get sick of reading such defensive
- postings. Michael's right. "No one attacked you." The fact is,
- Windows is so large, even Petzold doesn't know everything there is
- about it. When someone says "I'm right" he/she is just asking for
- trouble. There's always exceptions to the rule, especially in a
- complex multitasking environment. Besides, unless the people claiming
- to be exactly right have completely traced through the assembly code
- comprising Kernal, GDI, User, and all other modules, then they can
- not say with certainty that they are exactly right.
-
- Come on, everyone. We all have weaknesses.
-
- Jeff Cogswell
- charvel@salzo.Cary.NC.US
-
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