Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: expanded memory with windows Message-ID: <13401@ncoast.ORG> Date: 24 Feb 89 00:53:52 GMT References: <58501@pyramid.pyramid.com> <3693@nicmad.UUCP> <435@dev386.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.windows.ms Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 20 As quoted from <435@dev386.UUCP> by beckman@dev386.UUCP (Zacharias Beckman): +--------------- | There are currently two implementations of Windows: Windows/286 and | Windows/386, both of which make use of expanded memory. Windows/386 can, in | addition, convert extended memory to expanded memory; thus, it uses both. | There is no '8088 version of Windows'. +--------------- The product currently known as "Windows/286" is roughly the same Windows that was originally released for 8086/8088 machines. The problem is, a 5MHz 8088 system just plain doesn't have the horsepower to work at a reasonable speed. I've used Windows/286 on an 8088; it works fine, but the miserable performance convinced me to buy an Inboard-386 for my machine. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser