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- From: vombruch@quando.quantum.de (Stefan vom Bruch)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.060049.811@quando.quantum.de>
- Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
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- References: <1992Sep10.041027.9029@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:00:49 GMT
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- Mark Kovarski (kovarski@zooid.guild.org) wrote:
- : You can configure ANYTHING in OS/2 2.0, including what you want to install.
- : My swap file doesn't exceed 2 MB. You must be joking when saying, "it feels
- : like a 8 mhz ST." Have you really tried it. I see NO speed decreases in OS/2
- : at all. As a matter of fact, I am running it on a 486/50 MHz DX with 16MB
- : RAM and ATI Graphics Ultra. It is as fast as a TT with NVDI loaded in.
-
- You take a 50MHz 486, give it 16MB of RAM to play with, add one of the fastest
- (and most expensive) graphic boards and it's only as fast as a TT with a
- software screen accelerator?!?!
- As you can get the same performance out of a system that costs less than
- half of what you paid, I can understand you are so upset...
-
- : The screen redraw functions are immediately displayed with no delay at all. On
- : slower machines it might be the case but not on mine. Also, it accesses the HD
-
- You should see it on a more "average" 386/33 with 4Megs sometime. It's slower
- than an 8MHz ST and that's on a machine with four times as much RAM and
- supposedly four times as fast.
-
- Stefan
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