Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 03:24:55 10/27/01
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On October 27, 2001 at 04:59:13, Slater Wold wrote: >On October 27, 2001 at 03:11:10, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>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 >>>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 >> >> >>Fernando, >> >>Please send an email to info@rebel.nl with a description what goes wrong. >>While XP's kernel more or less is Windows 2000 we have noticed that a too >>small swap-file (the virtual memory) may cause a problem at times. So my >>hint would be to increase the size of the swap-file. Windows works best >>if you make the swap-file 2 x the available memory. So if you have 256 Mb >>in your PC make the swap-file 512 Mb. >> >>When it still does not work sue Bill or less stressy let me know and we >>do his job in the form of a patch. >> >>Ed > >No disrespect, but Bill isn't the one who has the problem with updating his >software. It was a joke Slate. I thought it would be self-understood. Ed >No disrespect again, but DOS has been "officially" dead for about 8 years now, >and you still have *new* versions of Century running exclusivly in DOS. > >From what I do know about XP, it's going to be no easy task to get Century to >run "happily" with XP. > >Perhaps MS is doing us all a favor killing DOS. Perhaps one day you might >actually be forced to write a Windows GUI for it! > > >Slate
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