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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 17:09:34 GMT
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- > In article <1432.6672T868T2409@burst.demon.co.uk>,
- > Lee Huggett <Lee@burst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- >>Win95 cripples the P6 because of the non 32 bits of Win95
- >>
- >>if they switch back to the P5 then it will run quicker..
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- > Nonsense. The non-32bit sections of Win95 don't take *advantage* of the
- > pentium pro's architecture. The 32bit sections *do*. What you really
- > have is an increase in performance, but not as much as, say, Linux would.
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- So in general, most people are still running their old Windows 3.11 16 bit apps.
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- which doesn't make use of the P6s facilities at all
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- This was a paraphrase of a press release from Intel which MS has confirmed..
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- Lee
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