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[Jerry Heyman]

In my previous article, I said:
>
>Depends on what the application is.  If its a heavy duty number cruncher, then
>the performance has been quoted at a 16Mhz 80386 (read in one of the trade
>magazines).  If your application is VGA, then the performance is along the

This should read if your application makes extensive use of the VGA display
hardware, then you will note a drop off in performance.  Heavy duty graphics
programs will obviously run slower as the software is emulating everything 
that is on the VGA hardware cards.

>lines of a 12Mhz 80286.  The difference is that all the display hardware that
>you get when you buy a VGA card is being emulated in software.
>

jerry
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