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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 11 Dec 1994 14:19:00 +0100
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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caywood@infi.net (John Caywood) writes:

>Runs on Intel is an overstatement.  2.3 x86 ran, 2.4 x86 crawls.  
>Unfortunately, 2.3 x86 ran poorly.

Where have you seen 2.3 on x86?  As far as I know there never was such a
thing.

>What I've seen is that Wabi on 2.4 x86 runs MSWin apps 15-20% slower than
>MSWin on the same hardware.

Other people have reported that Wabi runs faster than Windows on teh same
hardware.  But I guess the support for the graphics hardware you have
is the dominating factor.

Casper