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Re: 60ns and 70ns SIMMS in ... (I got them!)

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From: Ignacio Garcia
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00
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Hi, guys!

First of all, thanks to all of you who replied to my post.

Second, I finally got the SIMMS. I decided to get the 70ns SIMMS (they're the
same price). I upgraded from 16 MB to 40MB (had to take off 2 4MB SIMMS :-(  )
Anyway, the system FLYES!!! It's a 486/66, and I assure you my system is
even faster than this P90 - 16MB from a friend of mine. Although Warp is
almost using all memory (just has 3-8MB free at normal use), swapping
has almost dissappeared!! Before, even when I maximized programs like
PMMail, swapping was active, reducing performance. Now everything comes
instantly. Multitasking is MUCH faster, and even redrawing the WPS is almost
instantly. I have set a heavy bitmap for the background, and before the upgrade
I usually had to wait for 1-2 seconds to get the bitmap redraw (of course I had
it disabled, it wasn't worth it). Now it comes instantly. Even WebExplorer is
faster (I can't belive it ;-)   ). And I have no words for Lotus Ami Pro. Before
it was faster to load Word (including the Windows sub-system) than Ami Pro.
Now Ami Pro works like an OS/2 program should.

Well, as you see, I'm very happy. For all the people who are thinking about
getting a faster processor, I have to say: Upgrade memory first. It's worth it
even if you have 16MB.

Again, my thanks to you all for all the replies I've got.

Cheers,

Ignacio

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http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
"OS/2 is what DOS and Windows should have been. Windows NT
aspires to become what OS/2 is." - Lee Reiswig, May, 1993.
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From: ignasi@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Ignacio Garcia)
Subject: Re: 60ns and 70ns SIMMS in ... (I got them!)
Date: 1996/04/11
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