Date:	Wed, 14 May 1997 08:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	randir <goehrigd AT gort DOT canisius DOT edu>
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Graphics and Stuff
Message-ID:	<Pine.SOL.3.91.970514080611.9891B-100000@gort.canisius.edu>
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One thing to remember that the combination of motherboard & processor
go a long way towards determining which is faster.

For example, I had an AMD 486dx66 Vesa Localbus with a cheap Trident card
which was also VSLB... It ran both Quake and Heretic noticably faster
than my friends computer which we had sitting right next to it which
had a Intel Pentiuim 100 on a PCI board with a PCI trident card
(similar quality slightly better card in theory actually)

I was running straight dos, and he was running win 95. 
When we booted his computer off a floppy with good old dos we saw
a slight speed increase, however the PCI motherboard & video card
combination was slower than the VSLB combination.

Now I have a similar combination running DOS & was running windows95
Its a PCI pentium board with a PCI cheapo cirrus card (the cheapest)
and an AMD 5x86 75.. which due to a nice motherboard... [yup I splurged
on that and scrimped on the videocard] runs appearantly as fast or
slightly faster than my friends 486/pentium PCI pentium motherboard
and intel Pentium 100. [frame rates on Quake are noticeably better on mine]

	So there is an issue also of what hardware you've got
	how it is put together, and what operating system you are running.

Dos is still faster than Windows when running one app.
Good programmers do not want to let MS run their hardware for them...
[that is why Quake is cool, it is a 32 bit DOS program, that makes the
hardware do flips through flaming hoops]

	Like the man said.. want fast code write in assembler..
	want to write in assembler forget doing the windows :)

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