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Subject: 
Re: Renderers that poll for changes?
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Date: 
Mon, 27 Nov 2000 17:32:58 GMT
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Tore Eriksson wrote:
Don Heyse wrote:
Why not upgrade the 486 to Win95?  I use it on my ancient 486 laptop and
it works pretty well.

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 think you are mistaken !
Memory Manager in Win3.1 is pretty much Brain Dead, after an hour or two of
usage, it starts swaping memory to disk like crazy, because it does not regrup
the deallocated memory.

Trust me it's worth the change.
I changed a 486 with 8 Megs to Win 95, and it got faster.

Offcourse that you can't install all the stuff, only the ones you actually use,
to minimize memory usage.

See ya

Rui Martins



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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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