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From: djh9381@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.J. Halko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Can 1000sx go past 640k?
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Date: 15 Mar 90 21:37:19 GMT
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Reply-To: djh9381@ultb.isc.rit.edu (D.J. Halko)
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Well, there are EMS boards available for the SX...

Also, Desqview under the 8088 isn't bad. Using a V20 should help things
along! Desqview does do multitasking on the 8088, it is Windows which will
not do multitasking. My buddy Jay was multitasking a BBS on his clone before
using Desqview without EMS boards. It did work, but you could tell that
he was multitasking it (the ouput lines were jagged at 2400 baud.)

Someone said on the net that the SX with a math coprocessor was slow with
Desqview... it is not necessarily Desqview's fault as much as it is MS-Dos's
fault... it is just slow. If you use Desqview on a 386, then of course it
will not seem slow (but then again, when you run a program on a computer
that is 2 to 10 times faster that the old one, of course the old one seems
slow....)

But, then again.... even OS/2 on a 386 is a dog (unless you are running at 25
or 33 MHz...) Once again, the fault of the OS, not the processor... but that
is a different topic... (or is it? I would rather run Desqview 386 than OS/2
for sheer speed differences... How many MHz does a 386 have to run at in
order to keep up a 2400 baud under OS/2? I forgot... it was in another of the
rn sections... maybe the OS/2 section...)

David J. Halko