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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 11:57:16 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) writes:
-
- >On Tue, 09 Apr 96, Karl Thomas typed the following line(s):
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- >> Thanks for the education. Too bad you're wrong. Windows 3.11
- >> cooperatively multitasks Windows apps and preemptively multitasks DOS apps.
-
- >Ahem? Do you know what cooperative multitasking is? It means that the
- >app in question decides how much CPU time it wants. And not the OS.
- >Which means it's easy for an appp to hog the CPU. The MS PR dept.
- >came up with a doozy indeed here.
-
- Yeah, where did I say otherwise? The poster of the original message said
- that Win 3.1 doesn't multitask. If you have three windows apps running
- and one DOS app, the Windows apps each have to call a procedure to give up
- the CPU, but Windows itself allocates CPU time to DOS apps.
-
- >> Windows 95 is just as fast as Windows 3.11 if not a little faster with 8
- >> Megs of Ram. Win95 runs very well on my dx/2-66 DOS card. It would run
- >> better on the average dx/2-66 clone though since most of them would come
- >> with beter graphics hardware than the DOS card has on it.
-
- >Hmm. DX4-100 with 16MB and Win'95 is darned slow. I installed FreeBSD
- >2.1 on that same computer and it flies. And is a lot more stable as
- >well. Just try running Netscape and a telnet session. Then cat a
- >really long file in the Telnet session. On win'95 you'll see the mouse
- >pointer flicker and you can't do much. On FreeBSD there's no problem.
- >Nor on the Amiga with AWeb and Napsaterm for that matter.
-
- Was the Telnet client 32-bit? Anyway, I don't use Win'95 for internet
- connections. I use the Mac side and don't get any noticeable slowdown
- doing the same thing with NCSA Telnet and Navigator.
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