Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue Jun 21 2005 04:58 pm

  Re: Re: About To Blow A Gaske
  By: ROB MCCART to DIGITAL MAN on Mon Jun 20 2005 07:55 pm

 > RM> > Speaking of...  This is really odd..  I still use quite a few
 >   > > DOS programs (Win 98 DOS) and with warmer temps I was watching
 >   > > the processor temps more closely the last few days..  It's cooled
 >   > > down again, barely 70f in here today, but my processor, that usually
 >   > > can run virtually anything in Windows up to mid-level Games and
 >   > > stay at 52c, will run itself up to 63c - 65c just doing mail in
 >   > > a DOS Mail Reader or playing Dos games designed to run reasonably
 >   > > well on a 386. I dunno why it gets so hot running those...
 >   > > (P4 3.0 GHz Prescott - 512 ram)
 > 
 > DM>Check your CPU utilization (using Windows task manager or the like).
 > 
 > I did.. It was bouncing between 0.6% and 1.2%
 > Doesn't sound like it should be overheating, does it...   B)
 > 
 > It doesn't even warm up using other smallish Windows games
 > that show 15% processor use or so..
 > 
 > Considering that 64 bit processors run 32 bit software
 > even slower than 32 bit processors the logical explanation
 > might be that 32 bit processors really don't handle 16 bit
 > programs all that efficiently..

Looks that way. You might have better luck with an NT-based OS (e.g.
WinNT/2K/XP) whether 16-bit DOS programs run in an emulated environment.

                                                  digital man

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