Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:13:14 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 13:13:31, James Swafford wrote:
>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.
It's more an OS than just a GUI.
Just check the differences between DOS memory management and Windows 3.1 memory
management if you want to get an idea.
Christophe
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