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From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Windows 3.0
Keywords: dos, windows
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Date: 15 Jun 90 09:40:53 GMT
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derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover) writes:

>	Having used Windows 3.0 for about a week, I can say that it's a
>terrific-looking program.  It's very consistent internally (in its interface)
>and comes with a lot of features and asides not usually provided with an
>operating system or user environment.  However, the only way I can see a user
>getting any work done by running it on a 33-MHz '386.  Perhaps it was the
>time-slicing that was slowing it down (that feature by itself is "way cool",
>by the way), but just screen redraw on a VGA monitor took a while on a 20-MHz
>'386SX.  I'm going to try out MS Word For Windows on it this week, same
>machine; I wonder how it compares to MS Word 5.1 in operation speed...

>						Derek L.
Strange. I have seen and tried it on a 12MHz AT with 1 MByte and found it
to be much faster than version 2 and of sufficient speed to run the
Write text editor, the notepad editor and the terminal program, all at
the same time. The speed increase has nothing to do with video speed,  
Windows has got faster because the many code reloads which slowed
down Windows 2 arent necessary anymore (mostly).

Wolfgang Strobl