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- From: johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu (John Martin)
- Subject: Re: Optimizing 386SX-16's for Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.035324.24260@nntp.uoregon.edu>
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- Organization: Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 03:53:24 GMT
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- In article <Bsu89r.3K6@cs.dal.ca>, goldrick@ug.cs.dal.ca (Majeed Goldrick) writes:
-
- >They are using monochrome monitors (!!!).I would like to get them going on
- >some Windows applications, but it would seem to me that this would be
- >extremely slow in the current setup. The question is - how can I optimize
- >these machines for Windows at a reasonable price. Do I:
-
-
- I realize that I am treading on dangerous ground here (I will probably catch
- it from the Windows zealots), so I am donning my asbestos underwear...
-
- Doesn't the fact that you have to optimize the hardware to make a given
- piece of software run with acceptable speed raise questions in anybody's
- mind? This immediately raises a warning flag in my brain that perhaps
- the software in question is not the best answer to the problem!
- Especially when there are better solutions on the market.
-
- Please, I am interested in discussions on this, but send your flames
- to /dev/null.
-
-
- --
- John Martin johnm@cajal.uoregon.edu
- Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 97402
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