Hi Bob



 BL> ...... A Pentium is just a Z80 on steroids, moving more and

 BL> more shit about faster. 32-bits have proved a dead loss, mostly

 BL> using twice the memory with a size handicap and no great speed

 BL> advantage so what happens?



 RM> The Skymap program I use was ported from Win31 to Win95 a year

 RM> or so ago, with a claimed doubling of speed in numerical

 RM> calculations.



 BL>   Did you notice any difference? It's a sad reality in this wicked

 BL> world, that if I make a change, I can nearly always find a selling

 BL> point where something doubles. It is very rarely that you find a

 BL> genuinely honest person who tells it like it is... so mostly we have

 BL> to do our own analyses and come to our own conclusions.



 BL>   Did you notice any difference?



No, cos I didn't buy the upgrade (even though it was only $25 odd),

cos I don't have Virus95, cos I think it's too dear (not 95 itself,

but the assorted software and hardware upgrades I'd really have to

do to go with it) and I'd rather upgrade when I want to, not when

Billy G wants me to.



Shorter less rabid answer: I haven't tried the newer version, so I

can't comment.



 BL>   My own experience of Win95 is that is runs slower than Win31, but

 BL> that experience is restricted to someone else's computer. Of course, I

 BL> could probably write a loop where either one would run faster than the

 BL> other...



From what I've seen, Win95 needs a Poxium 120 with 20M ram to "run"

at the same speed as Win3.1 on a 486/66 with 8M. (I'm only talking

of boot-up times and program load times here, I haven't looked at

program execution speed.) Anything can be solved if you throw

enough money at it...



Cheers



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