On Sat, 2 Sep 1995 15:35:07 -0500 Richard Gambrell said:
>According to Denys Beauchemin:
>> I forgot to mention, I put Win95 on my 486/66 with 16 megs and it does seem
>> much faster than WFWG 3.11.  I did get the companion MSPLUS.
>We have Win95 on a 486/66 w/16M, a 386/DX w/8M and a Penitum 100 w/32M
>and it runs faster than WFWG on all three! Dos programs seem to benefit
>the most. Of course, 32-bit replacement programs are often faster.
 
Ditto here; but the most significant change was that my 32Mb Pentium can now
run more than 3-4 applications at a time.  Previously it was "insufficient
memory" (conventional memory) due to multimedia extensions and drivers.
After Win95, I can load 2-3 copies of Netscape and Reflection, the whole
MS Office Pro suite, plus Foxpro and it's quite content.
 
>Networking with the built-in clients is *much* faster than Novell's VLMs.
 
Especially if you let Win95 setup "do it's thing" -- do a custom install
and delete the existing network stuff and add the Win95 drivers/stacks.
Better still, remove your existing networking stacks before installation.
But note that TCP/IP is *not* installed by default.
 
>HP's new OpenDesk Win GUI seems to run just find on it, also.
 
Yes, but on an unrelated note, the HP OpenDesk Win GUI uses blocking I/O
calls almost exclusively.  Very annoying at times, especially since almost
all readily-available winsock apps these days do asynch nowait I/O.
 
>> Question to the list:  I find Win95 to be disc space consuming, do you find
>> the same?
>Win95 seems to use 15% to 25% more disk than WFWG - but it depends *a lot* on
>what options you install.
 
Important point here -- during Win95 install you have an option to "backup the
current configuration" (may be a default if you don't custom install).  Also,
it will build a "bail-out disk" with a bootable Win95 kernel, scandisk, and
other utilities PLUS the UNINSTAL utility (or is in W95UNDO?).  Anyway, my
point was...
 
* The "backup" doesn't go on the floppy, it goes on your hard drive.  The
  bulk of it goes in a file in your root directory (W95UNDO.DAT?) that in
  my case was nearly 10Mb.
* The "uninstall" thing worked here, on two occasions, when we hosed a LAN
  card installation (and were installing from a Netware CD-ROM, and suddenly
  couldn't get to it anymore!).
 
Yes, it takes more disk, especially if you do a full installation.  But a
good 8-10Mb of that is your backup file (a significant chunk).
 
[\] Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>