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From: madd@world.std.com (jim frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandon 486, DesqView, Landmark Speedbar question
Message-ID: <1989Nov21.220611.4804@world.std.com>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:06:11 GMT
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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

You are mistaken; protected mode will slow the processor down, as it
must do access checking.  If you are doing memory mapping, things will
run even slower since you have to access the mapping tables before
doing the real memory access.

jim frost
software tool & die
madd@std.com