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From: poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel T. Poirot)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Windows on a 286
Message-ID: <1991May24.172959.2551@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 24 May 91 17:29:59 GMT
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Reply-To: poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Daniel T. Poirot)
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In article <24462@samsung.samsung.com> jarmolow@samsung.com writes:
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>	Forget for the moment flames against the 286, I'm not advocating
>buying one but there are a lot of 286 machines out there.  Does anyone
>KNOW why Windows 3.0 is a dog on a fast 286 ?

You people are weird.  

For most uses, given enough memory and a high-res VGA, a 286 machine is
fine.  I have been running my 386 in standard mode from the time I
figured out how to run it that way.
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