From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 17:36:32 EDT
I think the faster drives do help, a lot.
Once, when my 760CD went to EZ serve,
they zapped the old drive, and put in a current
model one. It made a big difference.
I have seen great gains with faster drives on
desktops, and once blew up a Seagate fooling
around with speedup software. It was singing
until that little tink sound.
Allan
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999 10:20:14 -0700, peter machule wrote:
>
>A few thoughts ;-}
>
>More memory will help ...a lot.
>20MB is borderline .
>The 32MB credit card style Memory chip is/was ~$60 ??
>Try www.shopper.com
>
>A faster HD will not make a Big difference .
>If you could get Bus Mastering to work it ,would also help . (Good Luck ;-}
>( I doubt the chipset supports DMA mode , much less the existing HD . )
>
>A DX2-50 without an external cache is borderline for Win95.
>
>Your Win95 is not set up correctly .
>All control panels and setup screens will fit in a 640* 480 display .
>Play around with display properties , etc.
>Make sure your running the correct WD 90C24? Video driver .
>I believe even the Pen version required the IBM Vesa Stub loaded .
>ie. Win95 deals with this Video chip as a dumb frame buffer with Vesa Extensions.
>
>..peter...
>
>
>
>>Hi.
>>I finally loaded a spare HD with Win95, and put it in my TP360PE. Having
>>gotten used to a reasonably fast PII desktop, it seems pretty sluggish in
>>comparison. I like the pen feature quite a bit, especially for web
>>surfing, so I am willing to pay for upgrades if they perform well. Any
>>opinions on whether gorng from 20MB RAM to 36MB will make much of a
>>difference? Are newer HDs faster? I currently use an original 540MB
>>drive. If it's my only option, I am probably willing to upgrade the
>>processor to an AMD586.
>>Also, how do people run Win95 on a 640x480 screen? I find that many
>>screens, particularly control panels and other popup screens, are too
>>large to fit onscreen and it's not possible to scroll through them. Also,
>>is there a key equivalent to pressing "OK" buttons? A lot of these
>>too-large screens have the OK button lying out of view, and I can't get to
>>it. All I can do is keep pressing the TAB key until I think that the OK
>>button is highlighted, then press ENTER and hope for the best. There has
>>to be a better way (I hope!).
>>
>>Thanks for any help.
>>J. P. Grenert
>>grenert_at_mayo.edu
>>
>>
>
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