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to: DAVID KIRSCHBAUM
from: JOHN KISMUL
date: 1997-05-07 18:31:00
subject: 486TO586

DK> Has anyone disassembled this bogus utility?  (It purports to somehow 
magica
DK> change your system so your 486 now runs as well as a 586 .. and the most 
re
DK> versions say it'll run like a Pentium.)
DK>
DK> It's a total fraud, of course .. but I just wondered what the program is
DK> _actually_ doing (and a disassembly would be the best way to find out, I
DK> suppose).
NONONONONONONNONONONONONNNNONONNOOO!
It's true, it really works.  I've used it on my old 486 Sx-33, and it did 
speed up windows, but not as much as a Pentium.
DK> But if anyone's already done that, I'd love to see the disassembled 
assembl
DK> language source .. or the original C source, if anyone knows where it is.
DK>
DK> Or if nothing else, an authoritative (anyone out there consider 
hemselves
DK> authority?) explanation as to what it actually does.
And by the way, what computer did you use it on?
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