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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:59:27 GMT
-
- >finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) writes:
-
- >>>judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org (Th.Huber) wrote:
-
- >>>->Multitask ???? Win3.11 is unable to multitask,
-
- >>>If this is true, then why can I multitask MS-DOS programs in WfWG 3.11?
-
- >>You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when you
- >>multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor time,
- >>and with task-switching, it only gives a diffent one all the power, the one
- >>you have selected at the time. This gives the illusion of multitasking, but
- >>it isn't true multitasking.
-
- >Thanks for the education. Too bad you're wrong. Windows 3.11
- >cooperatively multitasks Windows apps and preemptively multitasks DOS apps.
-
- Hmm.. Still feels horrible though, like the OS is standing between you and
- the power of the processor, and bashing you every time you try to use it.
-
- >>>->and Win95 is so damned slow, you end up re-installing Win3.11.
-
- >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.
-
- Odd, win95 as about as fast on our P100 with 16 meg of ram and a 1 gig HDD
- as 3.11 was on our 486.
-
- >>>I didn't. Win95 is much better than 3.11 in every regard. Most people who
- >>>go back to 3.11 do that only because Win95 interface is so different to
- >>>what they were used to (Program Manager and File Manager).
-
- >>My dad has given up on Win95, and has decided to learn DOS instead. He says
- >>that DOS is far preferable to that abomination, and I tend to aggree with
- >>him (we have a Win95 P100, and it still crawls).
-
- >You must be joking. How much Ram does it have 1 Meg?
-
- 16, and it is no joke. I thought '95 was a joke for a while, but it really
- isn't funny, so it can't be.
-
- >>>Win95 doesn't need a faster CPU than Win3.11, but it needs somewhat
- >>>more memory.
-
- >>But it still crawls, even with a P100 with 16meg of RAM and a 1 GIG HDD.
-
-
- >I guess actually asking you to post the programs you were using and
- >comparing them to similar Amiga programs would be too much trouble. It's
- >amazing how Amiga users can call the typical Pentium based PC with PCI
- >graphics cards slow and then settle for the pathetic speed of the typical
- >Amiga.
-
- Here are the programs I was using:
- M$ Explore (to move files) horrificlly slow, much slower than DOpus on my
- 1200 with '030 processor.
- Delphi 2.0, also bloody slow (30 seeconds of HDD access every time you try
- to step into the next command).
- M$ Exchange, which crashed tha machine. I then gave up, and used my
- Amiga.
-
- I was also using the desktop, which was just _sooooo_ slow.
-
- The Amiga may have a slower processor, but it is amazing how many PC owners
- have a go at the speed of the amiga, and then go and use Wintel stuff :-) I
- feel sorry for the poor fools. Win95 is about 1/5 of the speed of Workbench
- on my A1200 '030 28mhz, and that is on a machine more than 20 times faster.
-
- Finn Higgins
-
-