Hi, David. I noticed you saying to All:
DB> This is the question: would Windows 3.11 be better suited for my
DB> needs than Win 95? I currently run a Pentium 100mhz box w/16 megs of
DB> RAM. This unit currently has Windows 95 as the primary OS on one
DB> partititon, with DOS on another. I use Windows 95 primarily for web
DB> browsing and some word processing on my Lexmark inkjet printer. I use
DB> DOS for the rest of my needs.
Well, lemme see. What you describe is -almost- what I had with the old
Mobo I had in my Work machine. (Had to replace it when the clock
battery died -- the battery was -inside- the soldered-in-place CMOS
clock chip.) Only place I have Win 9x is on one of the two harddrives
in my Home/BBS machine. The other has DOS, Win 3.1, and the BBS lives
there.
On the old Work machine, I used Win 3.1. Still using it on my current
Work K6-2-400 or thereabouts. Good news -- small disk footprint, not a
lot of overhead to slow things down, plenty of stuff that still
continues to work as well as it ever did.
Only two problems I have with Win 3.1, really. On my Home machine, when
I upgraded from a 486-33 to my current K6-2-266, my sound card stopped
working properly under Win 3.1. I think it was the timing on the Sound
Card drivers. Drivers expected a machine in the 33 mhz or so range, and
took their timing from the -expected- system clock speed. Doesn't work
with a machine 10 times as fast.
The other is the Resource Heap. Gradually when using Win 3.1, I run
program after program, am left with less and less resource space.
... RAM = Rarely Adequate Memory
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