> > the hardware. A multi-tasking OS will be notably slower for some things
> > than a non-multi-tasking OS such as DOS or windows.
The conditions under which the 17% difference was observed weren't
mentioned. I would go to single-user mode with "telinit 1" and kill off
all extraneous processes to get the most speed (if I had a Pentium to try
this on).
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Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net>