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Subject: Re: XP Experience until now

Author: Pham Minh Tri

Date: 20:54:54 10/26/01

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On October 26, 2001 at 19:20:47, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>I all:
>A couple of days ago I wrote a list of some programs that does work and those
>that does not in XP environment. No reply appeared, so I ms asume I left all
>people in amazement, frozen in awe so nobody could write a word.
>Well, I like that. Kind of an exercize in humility. So here goes the second one
>about XP perfomance. I have been using it intensively for 5 days and this is it:
>Pros:
>It has not hang at all
>It has not frozen until now
>No blue screen
>My internet connection -by now a simple Dial-Up one- is running two or three
>times faster.
>Fritz 6 went from around 390 Knodes to near 500 in the same 500 Mhz AMD-K6 where

Fernando, by this reason you will make me lose money to buy it ;)
However, do you have any comparison between Win2000 (pro) and XP (just chess
speed only)?

>I runned Windows Me. Maybe I did a bad measurement before?
>Faster loading of all programs, including itself.
>Far prettier interface.
>Cons:
>It is not very friendly with AMd cards, but, although putting an unhappy face,
>it has worked with every driver on the integrateded card I use. Until now...
>Some chess programs definitively does not run: the worst case is century and to
>my chagrin as it is one of my favourites.
>Until now is not easy to find an AV program that is compatible. I found one that
>is more or less so, Panda Platinum, but still give me some reports of
>malfuntioning. But I have not tested NT AV's. Maybe they fits better.
>Now, say something...
>Fernando



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