Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 08:30:21 04/01/03
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On March 31, 2003 at 23:58:47, Jouni Uski wrote: >My new PC is now fixed (they replaced whole mainboard). I compared some test >runs under XP Pro to old Windows98 SE test and surprised: specially Ruffian now >runs 10% faster and also Fritz8 2-5% faster (including Fritzmark). I sure didn't >except this. Only minor drawback is, that XP takes more RAM, but it's only >10-15MB more. So Microsoft has something right, when they claim programs run >faster in XP. The only thing I can think of is that XP manages memory better than the older Win9x's. "Better than Win9x" isn't saying much though.
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