Re: 486 vs. 386

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From: Yi Jin
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 01:56

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I used to use WordPerfect5.1 on my 286-12 1MB ram system. Although CPU
is slow, but it does not involve much disk activility. I did not even
have disk cache on it. WP5.1 was doing quite well on it. Now I switched
to 486DX-33 with 8MB ram. I use WP5.1 for Windows now. I have Hyperdisk
cache program installed. But WP5.1 (for windows) seems really slow:it
just keeps fetching data from the harddisk.

So I guess the situation will be the same for 586: WP6.0 on 586 with 
Windows NT will probably not be much faster  than WP5.1 on a 286 system!

YJ

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