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- From: rickb@ballantyne.Corp.Sun.COM (Rick Ballantyne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Procomm Plus For Windows
- Date: 28 Dec 1992 04:37:35 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Ed...cal the Procomm BBS at 314-875-0523 to get the latest patch. Just
- download and run.
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- Rick
- In article 6964@julian.uwo.ca, ccasted@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Deering Boykin) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec27.233349.27431@netcom.com> ergo@netcom.com (Isaac Rabinovitch) writes:
- > >
- > >>time killer was switching back and forth between DOS and windows
- > >>(286 "brain dead" processor feature). You'll have no such problems.
- > >
- > >people are under the impression that the 286 "isn't powerful enough"
- > >for Windows 3.0 or 3.1. The truth is that, as far as Windows is
- > >concerned, the only difference betweeen the two is Windows enhanced
- > >mode, which won't work on a 286. So no DOS box, modem communication isn't
- > >
- > >What *is* crucial is processor speed. Intel apparently never bothered
- > >to make 386s slower than 16 mhz, and by the time the 286/16 appeared,
- > >386/16 systems were begining to compete for shelf space, so few people
- > >have 286 systems faster than 12mhz. But I keep hearing of people who
- > >are happy with Windows running on ATs, and after all 75% of a 386/16's
- > >performance is still pretty good.
- >
- > I think it's laughable that some people bought the sage advice 2 or 3
- > years ago and got 386-sx-16's. I'm motoring along with my 286-25, which
- > runs rings around 386 sx-16's and 20's. I've run enough benchmarks to
- > come to the conlusion that my 286-25 is at least as speedy as a 386-DX-20.
- > I run windows with CorelDraw 3.0, Ventura 2.0, and I dabble with wordperfect
- > for windows, but I think it's a little slow.
- >
- > I know a few other people that run windows and coreldraw with 286-16's and
- > 286-20's. It works for them, and just as fast as 386-sx-16's.
- >
- > As for the 386-enhanced modes, isin't that a slower mode than the standard
- > mode? Look folks, how many people out there (percentage wise) really
- > benefit from or even use the task-switching or multi-tasking dos-box
- > or whatever it is that the enhanced mode lets you do?
- >
- > The point is, if the party line is that the minimum system for windows is
- > a 386-sx-16, then there's something rotten, if not just plain wrong, that
- > faster 286's aren't included in the "recommended equipment" list.
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