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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Screen Saver?
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Date: 18 Sep 90 08:16:32 GMT
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In article <10709.26f3804e@ecs.umass.edu> daly@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>My questions are: do Windows screen savers operate reasonably trouble-free?  
>Will a file transfer be messed up when the saver turns on? 

I placed my screen saver EGAUTL83 (which is a VGA screen saver too) on
cica.cica.indiana.edu. It is PD and unlike others, it does not display
some bitmap or fancy graphics. It only switches of the display(s) by
writing hardware ports and palette registers and therefore should not
need much CPU power when it turns on. Give it a try. Also, it is BOTH a
normal DOS screen saver and a Windows 3.0 screen saver.
It's disadvantage is, that you don't get ANY entertainment :-).

Kai Uwe Rommel

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