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- From: ttammi@spider.compart.fi (Tiitus Tamminen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 20:00:33 -0400
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- finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) wrote:
-
- ->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.
-
- Then you have configured your P100 wrong. You have probably disabled
- your CPU cache, using an Trident ISA graphics card, 12 megabytes of
- your SIMMs have not been installed properly (leaving you with 4 megabytes
- of RAM) etc. There's no other explanation, because no-one else is seeing
- this dramatic speed decrease from Win 3.11 to Win95.
-
- ->I was also using the desktop, which was just _sooooo_ slow.
-
- Doing what? Were you moving the desktop or something? It's immovable.
-
- ->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.
-
- "Oh gee, I was using this A4000 with gigabytes of RAM and a 060 accelerator
- the other day, and it was DOG SLOW. And it crashed every two seconds! My
- 286 is sooooo much better and faster!".
-
- Sorry Finn, but your statements are about as real as that.
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