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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandon 486, DesqView, Landmark Speedbar question
Message-ID: <1686@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 20:36:21 GMT
References: <8@tandon.UUCP> <2554PICHER@MAINE>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <2554PICHER@MAINE> PICHER@MAINE.BITNET (Michael W. Picher) writes:
|                    Now, suppose you run in a Desqview window... You are
| running the processor in the protected mode and it will run faster
| (but a speed rating of 100 Mhz under 386/ix???, maybe with a 386/33
| of if you were talking about running 386/ix on the 486).  Anyway, I do
| believe that because you were in the protected mode you were getting
| a higher speed rating than in DOS.

  By any chance do you mean "virtual 8086 mode" rather than "Protected
mode?" The ix/386 native stuff runs protected, but the DOS emulation
runs virtual86. I'm not sure about the Desqview, I thought it used QEMM
to emulate LIMS, but I don't have the details fresh in my memory.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon