14 Feb
2001
14 Feb
'01
11:58 a.m.
From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
A friend told me off-list that when copying a file,
there is a graphic
icon of each bit being moved. He suggested that the floating point was
That explains whay it's so slow.
BTW, 95 will install on the same machine without the
FPU (486SX).
W95 will run on 386sx/16... I've done it. W98 can be faked on to a non
FPU
cpu but it's not pretty.
Which apps, etc. are different? Or did MICROS~1 simply
do the FPU
requirement to reduce the number of performance complaints about their
apps?
Beats me, I'm running it(both 98 and ME) at work as an upgrade from w95,
all the stuff we used to run still does and Autocad2000 was happy.
Allison