From: "John Beamish" 

Wasn't there a virus that promised (and delivered) a fireworks display
while infecting your machine?  (This is a serious question ... not trying
to goose you.)

On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:08:34 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> I browsed thru my old dos util directory today, found an old program
> called
> "america.exe" which is just fireworks by another name. Anyway I ran it
> full
> screen on my 24" dell widescreen/duo 2 machine and it was so fast you
> almost
> couldn't tell what it was. Laughed good over that..
>
> I'm thinking regens/redraws in autocad 2 wouldn't require any waiting at
> all..
>
> Geo.
>
> "Richard B."  wrote in message
> news:spv5m212p42hp3msu69fkaoqgaduqlrsip{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:48:25 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>>
>> >Have you tried running an old OS on current hardware? NT4 is really
> really
>> >fast on 3ghz machines..
>>
>> I've been tempted but fortunately resisted.   I do know how fast
>> everything runs on a clean machine with straight VGA before a/v and
>> applications take their toil even with the OS bloat.
>>
>> - Richard
>
>

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