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what the hell am i doing wrong? OpenGL vs D3D fps...
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TNT2 M64 - bargain or lemon?
Well, yes, I agree, I *am* the _heretic_. I am principled. I can see, easily, why having binary-only components in the middle of a system stack where there are no proper standards will inevitably lead to lock-in. I can see that a linux system built in this way is little or no better than a Windows one,

Dell Inspiron vs IBM A20p HANDS ON!
What's a better strategy in any ones mind? Have various levels of gaming /multimedia computers sporting both cards(not at the same time....duh) meeting different A) you want to jump onto the 32 bit 32 meg AGP bandwagon now.........even if it means having little or no software support B) You want to paly Q3A in

I want someone to explain why linux is better than windows
I am trying to go through and eliminate all 32 bit integers righ now (this is a pretty large hunk of code). But thought I would survey this group, actually, that x87, lots of mem loads/stores, and complex addressing forms, can be used to better effect wrt performance than SSE, register-heavy approaches,

i am new to assembly language
Yet here I am... 80)> I imagine that after SP1, or better yet 2, comes out that the bugs will be pretty much hammered out of Vista. Maybe at that point, As far as I can tell on Vista (32-bit), it'll partially work in being able to have the date/time display with a single taskbar, but lose the popup date display

x86_64 ia32 syscall restart fix
... be the better choice, and being that i am also going to go from 2GB to 4GB system memory i may need to choose the 256MB video card. Please tell me your thoughts. The amount of RAM you have in your computer has no bearing on how much video RAM you need. Also, bear in mind that your 32-bit computer has a 32-bit

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A little OT - 24/96 or just a better card and 16 bit?
Even better, it was just a couple of hex-height cards and except for the IPC talked to Unibus stuff like I was familiar with. I am undoubtedly glossing over the logic arrays in the 730 when I remember it. They seemed like TTL PAL's... but were they probably a little more functional and dense? Tim.

NT vs. Linux - How do they compare?
For orig_ax, the only time the value should be -1 but winds up as 0x0ffffffff is via a 32-bit ptrace call. So the patch changes ptrace to sign-extend the 32-bit orig_eax value when it's stored; it doesn't change the checks on orig_ax, though it uses the new current_syscall() inline to better document the subtle

Am i stupid, or just crazy??? (XGA Problem)
I am still wondering why people are being so picky about 1) 32 vs "22" vs 16 bit color and 2) image quality at higher resolutions. If i remember correctly, The detail from the TNT2 yes did look a tiny bit better....and you could tell it was using more color depth......but what does that get you? SO WHAT!

Video Card Dilema
By supporting them WHEN NOTHING BETTER EXISTS, I allow the user to specify screen dimensions when OW software is otherwise unable to determine them. I also like to think I am pragmatic. I prefer to hit a chisel with a hammer but will abuse a screwdriver if I have no chisel. Defaulting to 80*25 may not be pretty,

LOST!!!
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Donationware by 12noon (Stefan Tucker)
Yep 98 is better rthan 95. What is better is a relative statement. Don't get me wrong here, I am NOT a XP lover , and I will be hanging (don't go there PCR) in with It cannot fulfil the original Win9x design brief, which was to be a better DOS than DOS, a better Win3.yuk than Win3.yuk, and run new 32-bit sware.

Skybuck's Universal Code 5 (The Native Version)
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl lucky freebsd questions Is there a way to compile the 32 bit version (i386) of a port on an amd64 installation? I am running FreeBSD 7.0 RC2 amd64 very stupid (i don't know better) way but will work. unpack all freebsd disto to say /i386, use install.sh from

Are Longs better than Integers? I dont get this...
I have been given my information by some pretty big BigWigs in the equipment manufacturing world so now I am confused. In fact, my main source of this Your comments are a perfect example of the ignorance in 24-bit fixed vs 32-bit floating debate: 32 is better cause it's a bigger number then 24. WRONG!

" Sweet Spot" for XP SP3?
PII 333, w/128 ram V550 stock clock speeds 1.76 drivers from nvidia (leaked ones) everything turned on for D3D (2.25e) 1024x768 32bit DX 6.1 I really don't trust these Seems like I've seen LOTS better benchmarks from similar machines, so what exactly is wrong with this picture? Any advice greatly appreciated.

Can I exchange Windows XP64 for 32 bit version
I am doing research for a column on the same thing. What are the technical advantages of one over the other. Yeah, so NT needs more RAM and hard disk than Linux? So? The 32 bit API's -- do they make losing portability worth it? Why? Applications are lacking in the world of Linux. Is rolling your own better than

Win 98SE vs. ME vs. XP
However, these machines are basically equal wrt speed, and these results say nothing about how the M64 scales with CPU - it may well scale better than the TNT1 for all I know. But on Quake III maximum texture detail settings on 32 bit color and 32 bit textures, a 16MB TNT2 can only get 17 FPS.

Why not 13-11-9-6? Why only 7-5-4-3
(Don't forget to close everything down, including Gamespy, when Q3 is launched or you'll get texture corruption) PS I am referring to the AGP drivers for Windows 9x available right now on the Nvidia web site. Also, 1024x768 at 32-bit color FPS is in the teens now, so it's slower than the 1.20 drivers.

time_t not to change size on x86, votes
Pai Yili paiy...@fast.net comp os ms-windows misc In article <4s9r6t$pvo@eagle. dmv.com>, rbu...@dmv.com (Rick Buser) wrote: No disadvantages that I am aware of, and provided your system can utilize it, yes, you will get much better performance via 32-bit FILE access. Win 3.10 only has 32-bit Disk access,