Re: Low memory machines

Alex Buell (alex.buell@tahallah.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 22:47:31 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Anthony Barbachan wrote:

> Well you may be barely using 16 MB of memory on each system. Besides a
> 486DX4-133 was comparable to a Pentium 75 ONLY when using Win95 or less.
> When running a pure 32 bit OS any Pentium puts a 486 to shame. Plus add in
> 64 bit bus compared to a 32 bit one, 50Mhz access to memory and cache as
> compared to 33Mhz. PCI vs VLB. Maybe even EDO vs FPM DRAM. And perhaps
> mode 4 EIDE vs old IDE. Its not surprising you P75 is faster.

Yeah, I guess so. Time to go check out old P133/P166s and upgrade... on
the cheap :o)

Cheers,
Alex

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