No problems here with 99SE under XP, certainly faster than Win2K. Disk is hardly accessed, except after a very long day using Protel PCB when Protel appears to be hogging 100's of Meg of memory. A Protel 99SE restart to release the memory and all is fine.
I would hazard to suggest your XP problems are caused by something else other than Protel and XP. Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: Bagotronix Tech Support [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 20 June 2002 16:14 > To: Protel EDA Forum > Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP is a dog > > > > some system monitors. Looks like XP eats about 100 meg of memory > without > > anything else running. That's real efficient. I dont code but it > should > > use about 10K. I was using NT for the past 5 out 6 years, until > last > > year when I couldnt bear the installation, network setup, and > the patches > > Microsoft added to make NT more windows/ multimedia compatible any more. > I > > figured why try to make it compatible, why not use the real thing. I > stick > > my conclusion, XP is a dog. > > OK, I am less than impressed by Microsoft too, but 10K? Even embedded > versions of DOS take up at least 64K. I do admit 100M is way too big > though. What are they doing with all that RAM? I know a programming guru > who says that the way Windows processes keystrokes is amazingly > inefficient. > He says thay allocate a chunk of memory and copy an event buffer or some > such block of data, appending the new event in the process. And this is > done with each press of the key or mouse click! No wonder the > resources get > fragmented on a Win9X/ME system! > > Just so folks know, recent versions of Linux are hogs too. And > slow! Well, > not the underlying OS, but the window manager on top of the OS. > Yes, that's > right folks, the window manager and the OS are separate and > distinct things > in Linux, not all thrown together and inseparable like Windows. Try > browsing files and directories on KDE desktop on Linux, and compare it to > browsing directories with Windows Explorer. I have a dual-boot SuSE 7.3 / > Win98SE machine at home, and browsing in Linux is MUCH slower > than browsing > in Windows. > > That said, I still (mostly) like Linux, I still (mostly) like > Windows, and I > still think Microsoft is digging their own grave. Their > licensing policies > are acting like better and better shovels, and Linux makes the ground > softer! > > Best regards, > Ivan Baggett > Bagotronix Inc. > website: www.bagotronix.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Reagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Protel EDA Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 5:44 PM > Subject: Re: [PEDA] XP is a dog > > > > You are probably right Brad. Most of the comments were W2000. > I received > > some comments from other engineers that he had no problems with > XP/ Protel > > combo. Anyway, XP has the same delays I see with NT with certain > > commands ie place track there are long delays which I did not see in W98 > > unless my client rcs and ini files got corrupted. I just installed > > some system monitors. Looks like XP eats about 100 meg of memory > without > > anything else running. That's real efficient. I dont code but it > should > > use about 10K. I was using NT for the past 5 out 6 years, until > last > > year when I couldnt bear the installation, network setup, and > the patches > > Microsoft added to make NT more windows/ multimedia compatible any more. > I > > figured why try to make it compatible, why not use the real thing. I > stick > > my conclusion, XP is a dog. > > > > > > Mike Reagan > > EDSI > > > > ************************************************************************ > * Tracking #: 6FC3EB9061CAED47A35393ECA6970857C67D5043 > * > ************************************************************************ > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * To leave this list visit: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/leave.html * * Contact the list manager: * mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Forum Guidelines Rules: * http://www.techservinc.com/protelusers/forumrules.html * * Browse or Search previous postings: * http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
