Why Vista??

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The said:
My next fast PC is going to Run DOS and Windows 3.11, It'll be an
older Athlon 1.2Ghz or less and it'll be blisteringly quick at the
side of a 4Ghz Dual processor jobby straining away with Vista running
on it :-))
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Hi The Wizard!



I would not go w/o ISA Bus when using DOS/Win3.11.



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
I have an Athlon 1.4GHz jobby, and it runs XP fine. No need to run 3.11.
I feel all dirty just thinking about it.

*IF* you can bear console-only work, then Linux works blisteringly fast
on any machine that you can get your hands on; assuming you don't work
for some kind of computing museum, and don't decide to turn your hand to
running weather forecasting simulations.

Which kinda just proves what a crock all this dual-core, water-cooled,
aero-themed nonsense really is. I owned an Amiga with a clock speed of
7MHz. And it had a GUI. I hear about Vista, and just think "why".
 
Mark said:
I have an Athlon 1.4GHz jobby, and it runs XP fine. No need to run
3.11. I feel all dirty just thinking about it.
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:) Before I would use 3.11 I'd use AMIGA Os3.1 or so...
*IF* you can bear console-only work, then Linux works blisteringly
fast on any machine that you can get your hands on; assuming you
don't work for some kind of computing museum, and don't decide to
turn your hand to running weather forecasting simulations.
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Weather forecasting? I think a 1400MHz running CPU can have many jobs.
Which kinda just proves what a crock all this dual-core,
water-cooled, aero-themed nonsense really is. I owned an Amiga with a
clock speed of 7MHz. And it had a GUI. I hear about Vista, and just
think "why".
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Vista... hmmm... I don't think my IBM-PC compatible can support it.
Maybe with all candies off!?



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
Lee said:
Daniel...... 8 bit or 16 bit? vbg>
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hmmm, difficult to say.

I had some compatibility troubles with the Awe64 Gold, that I use in a
period of almost ten years. From DOS 6.22 upto XP SP2, and it is pretty
fast in NT, respectively DX9.0c. Not to mention DOS, where the
soundcard goes to the limit, because it has a nice digital-synthesizer
onboard (emu8000) with its own memory working independent from
main-memory and needs only some MIDI-clicks (not the slightest problem
for a Ghz CPU and the ISA-bus... that's just some kb's per second and
the ISA Bus can do far over 2MB/sec with selected chipsets. Intel are
the first choice, IMHO. Although I have never tried an Athlon capable
Chipset bez they are mostly w/o ISA :-()

Some older 8bit and 16bit soundcards can initialize in DOS even without
one init-line in the system files. SET BLASTER= A220 etc etc...
But on the other hand, you will not have the special synth, going with
MIDI Music outfitted Games and/or MIDI composing software. Just FM,
Adlib or so..

Newer 16bit soundcards need drivers in DOS. But I can count those
incompatibilities I mentioned, on one hand. :-|
Standard Software and much freeware runs very well with ultra-modern
ISA Cards. Elite II is one case for example, the game is critical to
driver-ridden soundcards and plays better on such non-configurated
soundcards (e.g. a standard 8bit Adlib or SB).



Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
The Wizard said:
My next fast PC is going to Run DOS and Windows 3.11, It'll be an older
Athlon 1.2Ghz or less and it'll be blisteringly quick at the side of a
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4Ghz > Dual processor jobby straining away with Vista running on it :-))

What applications will you be able to run (besides Notepad)?
:)
 
Laminar said:
4Ghz > Dual processor jobby straining away with Vista running on it
:-))

What applications will you be able to run (besides Notepad)?
:)
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I think a dual-core double CPU chipset, e.g. Sossamon, nicely set up to
speed up thread priorities, can show the american class into four as
well. Beside, sossamon is the most effective PC when including
power-consumption into the calculation, and it leaves space for
OS-optimizing types of User :-).




Best Regards,

Daniel Mandic
 
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