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From: young.u.huh
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:39

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I am looking for an inexpensive way to improve the speed of Windows
applications running on my PC.  An example of the type of improvement 
in speed I'm looking for:  I compared the speeds of Quicken for DOS 
and Quicken for Windows.  In DOS, I can scroll through the transactions 
very fast by holding down the up-arrow or down-arrow, and as soon as I 
release the key, the scrolling stops.  In Windows, however, the 
response is much slower.  When I hold down the key, it scrolls very 
slowly, and after I release the key, it keeps on scrolling for a while.  

The PC has an Intel 386SX/16MHz processor, 8 MB of RAM, and a Trident 
SVGA card with 1MB RAM running at 640x480 with 256 colors.  In the
above example, is the speed bottleneck in the graphics card or in the 
processor?

Would I get a significant improvement in the speed by replacing the
graphics card with a graphics "accelerator" card?  If so, then which
graphics accelerator cards would be good choices for my PC?

Any information or suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Young Huh
yhuh@ihlpe.att.com

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From: young@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (young.u.huh)
Subject: Graphics Accelerator Cards
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:39:06 GMT
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