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Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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lugnet.cad
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 01:54:49 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Tore Eriksson writes:
> Don Heyse wrote:
> > ...
> > Why not upgrade the 486 to Win95? I use it on my ancient 486 laptop and
> > it works pretty well.
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> With 420 Mb hard disk and 16 Mb RAM, it's no upgrade at all. (RAM not even
> upgradeable). I prefer a fast 486 with Win 3.1 before a slow one with Win95.
I suppose if you have a bunch of compact Win 3.1 apps you might feel that
way. My 486 laptop has 20 Mb and a much smaller disk and works fine
for me, but I mostly use it for multiple DOS windows to run the compiler and
text editor.
> I have no hope of finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1. I want to
> know what viewers for Win95+ that poll. I would have checked for myself if I
> had access to my PC at home, but it's far away...
I think they ALL support polling. Based on the pointer to Lars' documentation
in his reply I guess ldglite does the "silent" flavor of polling. (I suppose
I should consider adding some of those other polling options.)
Don
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| (...) With 420 Mb hard disk and 16 Mb RAM, it's no upgrade at all. (RAM not even upgradeable). I prefer a fast 486 with Win 3.1 before a slow one with Win95. I have no hope of finding a polling viewer that works in Win 3.1. I want to know what (...) (24 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.cad)
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