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Xref: sserve comp.unix.aix:48704 comp.unix.bsd:15540 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:7712 comp.unix.solaris:28172 comp.unix.unixware:15084 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3ceu84$4fi@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <3bvmo1$hgr@cascade.pnw.net> <3c0cir$5i2@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <STEINAR.HAUG.94Dec6203939@runit.sintef.no> <D0Ex7E.2nv@ssbunews.ih.att.com> <caywood.25.00013F38@infi.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl 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