Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: David Corn
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:40

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mstaben@umich.edu (Matthew S. Staben) wrote:


>right even though the bandwidth with networking is 10x greater than 
>any modem.  Try White Knight -- what a piece of junk.  Try Procomm for
>Windows -- what a piece of junk.  Try HyperAccess (text) for OS/2, or
>Zcomm for OS/2 -- now we're talking.  The CPU utilization for the OS/2
>applications are 3% during full transfer speed.  Get that, three 
>percent.  Look at the Windows or Mac options.  The utilization 
>jumps from 100 percent to zero, and back to 100 averaging out to 
>be greater than 50%!  

Downloading at 28.8k via Forte FreeAgent and FTP shows roughly 8% cpu
usage on a P60.  What were you saying about 50%, again?

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 15:40:17 GMT
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