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From article <1992Aug13.035324.24260@nntp.uoregon.edu>, by johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin):
> In article <Bsu89r.3K6@cs.dal.ca>, goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed  Goldrick) writes:
>>..... I would like to get them going on
>>some Windows applications....  The question is - how can I optimize
>>these machines for Windows at a reasonable price...
> 
> Doesn't the fact that you have to optimize the hardware to make a given
> piece of software run with acceptable speed raise questions ... perhaps
> the software in question is not the best answer to the problem!
> Especially when there are better solutions on the market.

Majeed Goldrick said the objective was to use "some Windows
applications."  I suppose the Windows applications in question have
capabilities that are not available in non-Windows versions.

Therefore what is needed is either:
   (1) non-Windows applications that are just as good, or
   (2) something faster than Windows that runs Windows apps.

Alternative 1 requires that we know what Windows apps are to be used
and why they're needed.

I don't think alternative 2 exists, but I could be wrong.  GEOS is
faster, but it only runs GEOS apps, and that's not the same thing.

By the way, my own interest in this is based on the fact that I'm
using an XT clone, so I can't run Windows 3.x at all, even slowly.  I
can run Windows 1.0 or 2.0, but that's useless (I think).  It would
be nice to be able to run Windows 3.x apps on my system.

> Please, I am interested in discussions on this, but send your flames
> to /dev/null.

Right on.  Light is good, heat is bad.

							Marty
marty@hoqaa.att.com		hoqaa!marty
Martin B. Brilliant		(Winnertech Corporation)