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Article #896Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola
From: Max Bell
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 16:41
Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 16:41
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In article <aschlemmDD6LuJ.90t@netcom.com>, Anthony Schlemmer <aschlemm@netcom.com> wrote: >You need a real fast machine to any any descent performance with >SoftWindows. Myself and many of my co-workers are forced to run >SoftWindows on SGI Indy boxs and it brings the Indy's performance to a >crawl. Word 6.0 is painful for all but the smallest of documents. I think it is more the size of your RAM space than the speed of your CPU. Aside from the size of the code required to provide the emulation, there is also the memory space of the emulated PC. If your system does not have enough RAM, the resulting swapping will degrade performance considerably. If you cannot increase the RAM available, you might benefit from reducing the memory used by the PC down to 8MB if it is currently set higher. In contrast to your experiences with SoftWindows, I have found its speed to be quite good even in Word. Max -- .----------------------------------------+----------------------------------. | /\ /\/ Max Bell <mbell@europa.com> | Help save the Net. Support your | | / \/ /\ http://www.europa.com/~mbell | local Internet Service Provider! | `----------------------------------------+----------------------------------'
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!europa.com!not-for-mail From: mbell@atheria.europa.com (Max Bell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.terminals.tty5620,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: Windows 95 testing halted at Motorola Date: 12 Aug 1995 09:41:27 -0700 Organization: Europa |||| Portland, OR Distribution: inet Message-ID: <40iljn$7u8@thetics.europa.com> References: <4006km$4os@questor.org> <hohmuth.82.302B71CB@cipserv1.physik.uni-ulm.de> <40h9sa$f7r@thetics.europa.com> <aschlemmDD6LuJ.90t@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: thetics.europa.com