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From: Steve.Withers
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:14

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In article <1992Aug31.161704.17154@cis.ohio-state.edu> cantor@boa.cis.ohio-state.edu (scott eric cantor) writes:
> 
> 	I don't know what the heck your friend's doing, but I can practically
> guarantee you it's something wrong.  We have NT running on a Dell 483/33 with
> 16 megs of RAM, and it's performance is certainly acceptable.  It took about
> 20+ demo programs running at the same time before we noticed an appreciable
> CPU slowdown.  If you want slow, try OS/2 on a 4 meg 386.

If - on the other hand - you want FAST. Try OS/2 on an 8 meg 386......NT can't
do it, but OS/2 can.......:-)
 
And OS/2 works, too! (NT can do a lot of demos/Besier curves - looks
nice,sorta like a multi-windowed lava lamp.....if you want a 486/33 16 meg
lava-lamp)

Steve
:-)

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Subject: Re: Speaking of Window NT
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:14:37 GMT
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