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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Problems setting up 386 enhanced mode
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.225233.22340@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 15 Aug 90 22:52:33 GMT
References: <14207@shlump.nac.dec.com> <2020@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA.
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In article <2020@sud509.ed.ray.com> heiser@tdw201.ed.ray.com writes:
>In article <14207@shlump.nac.dec.com> nadkarni@ashok.nac.dec.com (ashok p. nadkarni) writes:
>>
>>In case it is related, loading windows in 386 enhanced or even standard mode
>>seems to take a long time with a LOT of disk activity. Real mode is much
>>faster. Is this normal ?
>>
>
>On my 386/25, it takes 14-15 seconds to load.  Is it taking longer than 
>that for you?
>

My 386/25 only takes about 5 seconds to come up (to a basic screen with just
the program manager running.). Of course, I have a SCSI system and Wren IV
drives that clocks in at > 1.3Mbyte / sec transfer rate. I think disk access
has a lot to do with windows performance.

Since it is so fast, I also bring up the file manager as an icon, that takes a
few more seconds while it sorts out the directories, but it is quite
acceptable.


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