Denys writes:

>Patrick, if you are happy with your Mac, that is excellent.  It means the
>tool you have chosen is performing to your expectations.  That is the way
>it should be.  Me, I need stability, smooth multitasking and performance
>which are reasons why I selected my current laptop and loaded Windows NT on
>it.

Okay; Denys gets smooth multitasking. Does that mean I'm the only
developer in the universe with a uniprocessor NT system who can't compile
and edit at the same time? Using Microsoft DevStudio, editing is nearly
impossible while a compile is in progress; keystrokes take as much as
five seconds to show up, and window clicks take up to ten seconds to
become effective. This is on a 166MHz Pentium with 128MB of physical RAM.
The only setting I can find to diddle is "Application Performance" on the
System control panel, and I have that set at "Maximum" boost for the
foreground application.

Is there some other setting I need to diddle, or is this really what's
meant by "smooth multitasking?"

-- Bruce


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