E11 / Windows ME question

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Wed Feb 14 19:58:23 2001

From: Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) <cisin_at_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
Received on Wed Feb 14 2001 - 19:58:23 GMT