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Article #7643Re: Tandon 486, DesqView, Landmark Speedbar question
From: Wm E Davidsen Jr
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 16:34
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1989 16:34
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In article <2670PICHER@MAINE> PICHER@MAINE.BITNET (Michael W. Picher) writes: | Results are for an Informtech 386SX/20 motherboard with Pheonix BIOS. | | Landmark under DOS 3.3 ==> 24.3 | Landmark under DV (active window) ==> 30.3 | Landmark under DV (background task) ==> 34.0 | | What I don't understand is the speed increase gained by being a | background task. Anybody? Many benchmarks use the timer tick to count "real time." Running in some modes you may lose timer ticks, and therefore appear faster. I'm not sure that this is what's happening with this b.m. but I have seen it with others. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!apple!usc!samsung!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Tandon 486, DesqView, Landmark Speedbar question Message-ID: <1781@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 27 Nov 89 16:34:11 GMT References: <8@tandon.UUCP> <2554PICHER@MAINE> <1686@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <2670PICHER@MAINE> Distribution: usa Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY Lines: 19 Reply-exos: @crdgw1:To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)