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- From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Any info on WinSpeed
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 05:25:39 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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- References: <1993Jan23.001306.22695@oracle.us.oracle.com>
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- In article <1993Jan23.001306.22695@oracle.us.oracle.com> ebosco@us.oracle.com (Eric Bosco) writes:
- >cards. I have two questions:
- >
- > 1- Will WinSpeed work with my Trident card and
-
- YES
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- > 2- Will it make any significant difference (ie 2x faster or more)
- >
-
- All I can say on this part is... I want my money back! I have a 1 Meg
- plain jane ATI XL (not the Ultra, no accelerator, no nothing). So I was
- on the same boat you were. So we obtain WinSpeed in hoping to increase
- the performance of our Windows, especially after reading the article in
- PC Mag. I should've known better than to trust those guys in PC Mag.
- Anyways, we install the program. One thing I'll give it is, it was VERY
- simple to install. But then, we did some tests against times we timed
- before this installation, tests being things like Window startup which
- include it having to draw all the stuff on the desktop to drawing a Full
- Screen Printer Preview under a complicating drawing we have under Corel
- Draw (one of our slowest applications that we'd love to have WinSpeed
- speed up, the redraws that is). Not only did it not perform any faster,
- on some tests, it performed even slower!! What a rip off. I tried it on
- a number of computers in our lab too, from 386 to 486.
-
- So my conclusion is, it may have sped up Win 3.0, but certainly NOT Win
- 3.1. Don't waste your money/time buying it.
-
- Thomas.
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