Re: Slowing down your IBM

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From: Rick Ward
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1989 19:48

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From article <17642@netnews.upenn.edu>, by parnes@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Gary Parnes):
| 
| Some games which I have played (of the arcade variety) don't pay attention
| to your system speed, and so they are impossible on some of the faster
| machines.
| 
| I have heard that there is a way to make your computer slow down.  Does
| anyone know of some sort of command which does this?
| 
| 						Gary

Windows?

Just kidding.  Actually, PC Magazine published a utility to slowdown your
computer about three years ago(maybe a little more).  If you browse their
bulletin board, you can probably find it under SLOWDOWN or some such name.

Rick
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