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- From: pdg@crosfield.co.uk (paul goffin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Speed OS/2 vrs. Windoze. sx slugs
- Message-ID: <14886@suns3.crosfield.co.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 09:25:36 GMT
- References: <6515150d@p4.f302.n242.z2.fidonet.org> <1992Jul21.221700.585@mala.bc.ca> <14ju33INNd1u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Organization: Crosfield Electronics, Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom.
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- In article <14ju33INNd1u@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> urbndv8@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Bleeding Rivets) writes:
- >On a 486/33 with 12 meg's at work, Norton's SI in a DOS Box shows approx a
- >70 CPU speed rating; the figure I get under DOS 5 is 73 or so ... Subjectively,
- >that seems to agree with my perceptions of the speed hit I get doing other
- >things. Another benchmark I tried just now, switching to a DOS full-screen
-
- On my 386/25 (6MB), I get:-
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- OS Norton SI
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- MSDOS 5.0 22.5
- MSDOS 5.0 Full Screen in Win3.1 21.0
- OS/2 DOS Full Screen - Default Settings 13.6
- OS/2 DOS Full Screen - Better Settings (*) 21.5
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- (*) Better Settings includes reducing memory to 640K only, various
- other things set to give fast "single session" operation only etc.
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- PS my experience of disk intensive DOS or Windows apps is that
- OS/2 has a far better disk access/cache mechanism than DOS/Win3.1.
-
- Paul
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- + Paul Goffin + Crosfield Electronics Ltd. U.K. +44 442 230000x3357 +
- + + Opinions expressed are mine! +
- +-- My employer uses no CFCs in its processes - does yours? ---+
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