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Windows on a 386bb

    07-Jul-93 12:37:55
Sb: #106316-Windows on a 386bb
Fm: Manfred Grueneberg 100141,3617
To: TONY HILL 100121,3556
Tony, it took me 18 seconds from the C:> prompt in A2386SX bridgeboard to bring up Windows 3.1 until the hourglass cursor appeared and some more 6 seconds to bring up the programm manager and two group windows. Ready for use then after 24 seconds. The real long time is to bring up the PC itself. A warm boot on the BB side costs me 39 seconds from Ctl-Alt-Del to the C:> prompt. For a cold boot I will take the time next time I have to reset everything and then report. This system is Amiga 2000 (with A2620 board – 68030 inside), ECS; 40 MB hard disk and 88 MB SyQuest and CD-ROM on GPI SCSI; 6 MB ram; NEC Multisync 3D with flickerfixer per manual switch connected to the VGA card on the PC-side; PC part: A2386SX, 5 MB, 100 MB IDE Harddisk. I am running at 32 buffers for each of the 3 partitions I have on the Amiga side. But I am not using virtual PC Drives on the Amiga harddrive (= no ABoot nor JLINK).- Also I am running DRDOS 6.0 with SSTORE (i.e. similar to DoubleSpace) and SuperPCKwik. Manfred <- flying from FRA via Autopilot (Amiga) 1.052