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- From: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Gateway 486/66DX2 system and OS/2 (was Re: Gateway 486DX2 system)
- Keywords: Gateway, DX2-66, OS/2
- Message-ID: <289@chorus.chorus.fr>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:56:41 GMT
- References: <l97on8INNqv9@aludra.usc.edu> <1992Aug22.225753.11654@newshost.lanl.gov> <yuan1.714684186@husc9> <1992Aug24.205943.12530@nmt.edu>
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- Reply-To: mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski)
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- Organization: Chorus systemes, Saint Quentin en Yvelines, France
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- In article <1992Aug24.205943.12530@nmt.edu>, jreynold@nmt.edu (John Reynolds) writes:
- %%
- %% I recently purchased a Gateway 486-33 with 16MB ram and 200 Mb harddrive, and
- %% I've found that my only complaint with OS/2 running on this system is that
- %% my Borland C++ for DOS is *strangely and pitifully* slow. Other than that,
- %% it is awesome. It installed the first time and the resolution of the ATI
- %% ultra is reflected in its name (ultra cool).
- %%
- %% Hope this helps.
- %%
- %% -John
- %%
- %% ps. If anyone has had similar problems with BC++ 3.0 PLEASE PLEASE let me
- %% in on the trick to fixing the problem. Slow compilers require brain surgery
- %% to endure (booting to DOS because its quicker!!!!!)
-
- Did you deactivate DOS_IDLE_DETECTION by setting it to 100?
- I am not sure about the name of the parameter - but its
- default value is of 75. Till I changed this, Turbo C almost
- stopped after a few compilation seconds.
-
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- Adam Mirowski, mir@chorus.fr (FRANCE), tel. +33 (1) 30-64-82-00 or 74
- Chorus systemes, 6, av.Gustave Eiffel, 78182 Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX
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