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From: mmitchel@msd.gatech.edu (Mark A. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS-WINDOWS IN 1024x768 RESOLUTION
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Date: 21 Mar 90 17:56:56 GMT
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marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl) wrote:
}mmitchel@msd.gatech.edu (Mark A. Mitchell) writes:
}
}>I'm using a Video Seven VGA 1024i with Windows in 1024x768 resolution and
}>I don't experience these problems.  The redraw of moved windows, in fact,
}>is nearly imperceptable.  (My machine is comparable: Dell System 310, only
}>2 MB RAM.)  I am using Windows/286 rather than /386 because of some 
}>incompatibilities, but it would seem to me that this would make it slower if
}>it has any effect at all.  I have Windows/386 as well, so I'll try the same
}>operations with it when I get a chance.
}
}As far as Win286 being slower than Win386:
}
}  Then - "Oh, your using Win386 - That's MUCH slower.  Our product isn't
}  really compatible with Win386.  You should use Win286."  I told them
}  I wasn't about to fall back to Win286.

I tried my machine with Windows/386 as well, and there was no noticeable
change in performance.  This again points us (I think) to ATI's driver,
or lack thereof.

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