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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
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Subject: 386SX with fast video or DX with run-of-the-mill video?
Message-ID: <1991Feb24.010126.11709@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 24 Feb 91 01:01:26 GMT
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I'm getting ready to purchase/build a machine to
run Windows, and am trying to decide whether a 
386 SX with fast video (Orchid Prodesigner II) would
be adequate. How would such a machine perform com-
pared to a 386DX (25 Mhz, no cache) with a run-of-
the-mill 16 bit SVGA card? At work I use an IBM 55SX 
and its speed seems adequate except for one thing: 
it takes forever to redraw a windowed non-Windows 
app, especially when popping up from minimized 
(launced but iconized). As I use NCSA Telnet (Win-
QVT/Net doesn't have a host mode), InfoSelect and
Wordperfect 5.1, all windowed, this is a big problem
I'd like to avoid on my new machine. Would a faster
processor work better than fast video?

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