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Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ??

Author: James Swafford

Date: 10:13:31 03/05/01

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On March 05, 2001 at 10:12:41, John Wentworth wrote:

>I have heard that Windows 3.1 is actually faster than Windows 2000 & Windows 98
>because it's not doing so much. If so this would seem to make it better for
>Chess. Is this true ?

Like Jeroen said, it's just a "front end."  You're talking about DOS...
I think even the latest release of DOS was 16 bit, meaning it's tough
to do anything that needed more than 64k.

• Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ?? Christophe Theron 11:13:14 03/05/01
  • Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ?? James Swafford 07:25:52 03/06/01
    • Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ?? Christophe Theron 11:30:44 03/06/01
      • Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ?? James Swafford 11:50:53 03/06/01
        • Re: Windows 3.1 best OS for Chess ?? Christophe Theron 16:34:13 03/06/01

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