Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: jim frost
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 14:04

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gmj@garbis.panix.com (Geir Magnusson Jr.) writes:
>Has anyone found a decent X server for NT?  We are using XCeed 4.0 and
>it is a real dog.  The local window manager only dreams of being mwm
>compatible, for example...  quite a disappointment.  My experience
>with NT so far has been pretty bad.

I'm using Visionware's XVision; it's blindingly fast.  I use the
multiwindow mode, which uses Windows as its window manager, rather
than the single window mode where you run the window manager of your
choice.

>It's amazing how slow a P90 can be made to run.

If you're seeing serious performance problems there are several things
you can check:

1. Is your pagefile's minimum size larger than physical memory?  It
   should be, or else performance will suck.
2. If your machine is PI+VLB, is it using the OPTI chipset?  If it
   does, there is a hardware problem that destroys performance (not
   just for NT; BSDI UNIX won't run *at all*).
3. If you're using IDE drives, get SCSI.

I use NT on a 486DX2/66 with 32Mb memory, with EISA SCSI and network
controllers, and it runs very well.

jim frost
jimf@world.std.com
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http://world.std.com/~jimf

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