[comp.windows.ms] Slow 386 window

ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) (08/13/89)

The performance of 386 window on PS/2 70 (16MHZ) seems to  be pretty slow. 
It takes more than 30 second to start, and worse, the COMMAND window responds 
quite slowly to the regular DOS commands.  Is there something wrong
with the parameters in the win.ini file? 

thanks,

--ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu

grg@otter.hpl.hp.com (Gerd Groos) (08/13/89)

>> The COMMAND window responds quite slowly to the regular DOS commands.

Try setting the 'tasking options' to 'exclusive' in the command windows
system menu 'settings'.

                     Gerd.

ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu (M. Ghodsi) (08/13/89)

>> The performance of 386 window on PS/2 70 (16MHZ) seems to  be pretty slow. 
>> It takes more than 30 second to start, and worse, the COMMAND window responds 
>> quite slowly to the regular DOS commands. 

Sorry, I was way off! It is actually much slower than this. It takes
over 90 second to start the windows. 
'chkdsk' takes 30 seconds on DOS-COMMAND window; almost unusable.

>> Is there something wrong
>> with the parameters in the win.ini file? 


>> thanks,

 
    Mohammad Ghodsi   
    ghodsi@shire.cs.psu.edu
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