PC Processing Power (was Home Alone)

[Alexander Von_obert <avobert -at- TWH -dot- MSN -dot- SUB -dot- ORG>]

Hello,


* Antwort auf eine Nachricht von kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM an All am 28.03.97

kk> From: "Kristine J. Olberg" <kjolberg -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM>

kk> Ron, I use a Pentium 100 MHz with 16MB RAM. I run some pretty
kk> high powered
kk> apps on my machine, and I think I don't begin to touch the
kk> processing power of the CPU.

I use a 90 MHz Pentium and examined my choices. I think I would hardly feel
 any improvement from anything below a 200 MHz MMX CPU. But other, cheaper
 improvements might have a tremendous effect:

kk> I've maxed
kk> out a 1.2GB hard drive and the disk I/O seems very slow. I also
kk> run up against RAM shortages once in awhile.

Up to now my Win 3.11 installation is stored on my Netware 3.11 server. But in
 recent years disk drives got much faster than the 1 MB/s maxiumum of 10 Mb/s
 Ethernet. More RAM might even help while you not get any real shortage.


Greetings from Germany,
Alexander

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