home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.uib.no!usenet
- From: "Ronny G. Nordvik" <Ronny.Nordvik@edb.uib.no>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Windows 3.11 beats Windows 95 unless you are RAM-rich
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 15:58:59 GMT
- Organization: University of Bergen, IT-department
- Message-ID: <4h76s3$mgd@ugress.uib.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: barbar.uib.no
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
- X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12(Macintosh; I; PPC)
- X-URL: news:comp.sys.amiga.misc
-
- Windows 3.11 beats Windows 95 unless you are RAM-rich
- (Ref.: Personal Computer World, november 1995, page 18)
-
- Tests by VNU European Labs confirm that many users of Win 95 will have
- to spend hundreds of UK pounds on RAM and upgrades to get significant
- performance gains under Win95 - and even then if the use only one
- application at once.
-
- The latest 16-bit versions of Windows applications from Microsoft and
- WordPerfect, and the data-base FoxPro for Windows, actually ran 11.5%
- faster under Windows 3.11 than under Windows 95 on a 100MHz DX4 Compaq
- Prolinea with 8MB of RAM.
-
- Microsoft would like you to buy the new 32-bit applications, probably in
- the form of the Microsoft Office (takes 180MB of your HD) (upgrades from
- 168 UK pounds).
- But the new Word and Excel (32-bits) tested were only 3 % faster than
- their 16-bit versions under Win95 when single-tasking (only one
- application running at the time) - and no less than 55 % slower when
- running more than one application at once (So called MULTITASKING!!!).
-
- Multitasking is supposed to be better under Win95. BUT... Central
- control may be smoother but it does not seem to be faster.
-
- If you have 16MB of RAM then the 32-bit version of Word and Excel were
- 21 % faster than the 16-bit version when single-tasking, but still 28 %
- slower when multitasking.
-
- Main fact: An average user, with 16-bit applications and little memory
- (4MB of RAM) would need to spend more than 400 UK pounds on RAM and
- software to gain more speed under Win95 - even using only one
- apllication at at time.
-
- You will probably have to have more than 16 MB of RAM and still get many
- problems.
-
-
- GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR COMPUTER CHOICE!!!
-
-
- Why not try to figure out what other platforms and/or operating systems
- can offer you!
-
- AMIGA, Macintosh, Silicon Graphichs,...
-
- Do not choose Mac....the apples are rotten nowadays.....
-
- Best regards
-
- Ronny
-
- >+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
- >| Ronny G. Nordvik, PC = PoliticalCorrect MAC = MindAbsentComputer ///Only |
- >| Windows is a nice drawing tool__ ___ ///Amiga |
- >| |\/\/\/| IT-department, __ ////\ /\/\ /\/ _//\ \\\///Makes it|
- >| | | University of Bergen, HIB \\\//// '\/ \/ / /\/ '\ \XX/Possible |
- >| | | N-5020 BERGEN \XX/ \/\/\/\/\/\/\__/\/\/ xx |
- >| | | NORWAY Work Private Car1: +47 94 689159 |
- >| | | Phone: +47 55544100 +47 55917475 Car2: +47 94 646728 |
- >| | | Fax: +47 55 544299 +47 55916788 | =
-
- >| | (o)(o) Homepage: http://www.uib.no/it/pers/edorn/edorn.html E-mail: Ronny.Nordvik@edb.uib.no|
- >| C _) |
- >| | ,___| Omnis developer and consultant Who wants to buy nothing(Mac) for something($$)!!!! |
- >| | / On the PC the user does what the computer wants him to do |
- >| | / \|/ On the Amiga the computer does what the user wants it to do |
- >| (o o) Mac(Shapeshifter) is a new nice terminal program for the Amiga |
- >|_____ooO-(_)-Ooo_________________________________________________________________________________+
-
-
-