Re: XY and on-line sessions

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

>My wife's new IBM Aptiva (P5/100) was moderately fast (running
>Japanese Windows 3.1) when she first got it with 8 megs of RAM, but
>when she ran Japanese Word Perfect, it boggggggged dowwwwwwn. Adding
>another 8 megs picked it up quite decently.

  Well, of course, that's windoz. When I run CorelDraw under windoz and
import a graphics, everything comes to a screeching halt, even with a
5x86-120 and 16 meg.

>uses the new 70-pin SIMMs, I tried to get by with only 8 megs. Even
>though the new board has level two cache, making it faster than my
>previous board, OS2 crawled terribly. Again, another 8 megs of RAM

  And how much swap space were you giving it? My 486dx40 with 8 megs and a
20meg swap space ran acceptably fast. Adding another 8 made it faster, yes,
but I sure can't see a 486-66 w/8mg as "crawling" unless you had something
setup wrong. On the other hand, we have some 486-66 w/16meg at work
(Zenith's -- don't ever buy a zenith, very non-standard hardware) which are
so slow as to be unbelievable. Not running OS/2, just windoz, but horribly,
horribly slow. We suspect that they have a HD controller problem, but who
knows. So anytime I hear someone talk about some 486 level machine
"crawling", I suspect there is a problem that needs to be addressed, either
in software setup or defective hardware. Especially if you are running OS/2
and not windoz.
  BTW, one thing that slows down OS/2 machines is having the bios shadowing
enabled in cmos setup.

--
Harmon Seaver
hseaver@xxxxxxxx

"Some mon just deal wit' information. An' some mon, him deal wit' the
concept of truth. An' den some mon deal wit' magic. Information flow aroun'
ya, an' truth flow right at ya. But magic, it flow t'rougn ya."
     -- Nernelly, A Jamaican "Bush Doctor," 1982

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