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- 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: 4 Mar 1996 09:20:47 GMT
- Organization: University of Bergen, IT-department
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- Windows 3.11 beats Windows 95 unless you are RAM-rich
- (Ref.: Personal Computer World, november 1995, page 18)
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!!!).
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- Multitasking is supposed to be better under Win95. BUT... Central control may be smoother but it
- does not seem to be faster.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- You will probably have to have more than 16 MB of RAM and still get many problems.
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- GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR COMPUTER CHOICE!!!
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- Why not try to figure out what other platforms and/or operating systems can offer you!
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- AMIGA, Macintosh, Silicon Graphichs,...
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- Best regards
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- Ronny
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