Re: Slow DOS under WARP (HELP)

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From: Gary Woodman
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 1994 12:58

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In article <1994Nov30.001041.2687@rd.scitec.com.au>, ants@rd.scitec.com.au said...
>I have a friend (a likely story) who has a 486SX-33 VLB machine with 20M of RAM
>and IDE and SCSI hard drives.

>that in DOS full screen sessions that his DOS applications 
>appeared to run slowly, some don't even work! Actually everything apart from 
>OS/2 applications appeared to be sluggish. He tried playing around with the
>memory settings, with not much improvements.

Try taking out 4 meg-o-RAM - certain bus-mastering controllers slow down significantly 
when installed in machines with >16M.

--
Gary Woodman                 "It's just the night in my veins"
GWoodman@sma.gov.au           Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders

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