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- This file shows the performance differences between Windows 3.0
- and 3.1, and between Standard and Enhanced mode Windows. The
- review machine is Technical Pixies own home-built 486/33 clunker
- which was used to develop WindSock.
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- CPU Speed: There is very little difference in CPU speed between
- either version of Windows or either mode. Standard mode is slightly
- faster than Enhanced, but the difference is too minor to bother
- about.
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- Video Speed: Again standard mode is slightly faster. The difference
- between Windows 3.0 enhanced mode and the others is marked, MicroSoft
- must have been doing something wrong under Win 3.0. In each case
- the same driver (Video7 640*480 256 color) is used.
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- Disk speed: Standard mode seems to be quite a bit faster in both cases.
- SmarDrive 4.0 with write caching has been used in each case, so the
- results for Windows 3.0 with the 3.x SmartDrive would have been
- much worse.
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- Memory Speed: No significant differences between the tests. This
- motherboard is a Taiwanese clone and the memory figure is quite
- disappointing (compare the Compaqs reviewed in COMPAQM.WSK).
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- Overall: The speed differences between the various tests would not
- be noticable to a user. It would have been a different story if I
- had used the old Windows 3.0 SmartDrive.
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- The performance advantages of Windows 3.1 over 3.0 seem to be mainly
- in the imporved SmartDrive and Video Drivers (VGA.DRV 3.10 is much
- better than 3.00).
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- Reviewed by: Chris Hewitt
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