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Subject:Re: Help! Caught in the upgrade treadmill... From:Rick Lippincott <rjl -at- BOSTECH -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 24 Jul 1995 08:33:07 EDT
Matt Ion said:
>That usually works the other way around. A Pentium will still run a DOS 3.3
>version of WordPerfect.
But not always. I've got an old copy of MultiMate that runs fine on my XT,
but won't work on my 486/66. The 486 is literally too fast for the software.
I also have a Spanish language tutorial with a similar problem: due to the
clock-doubling structure of the 486, timed tests and drills zip by in half
of their alloted time.
However, for -most- cases, Matt was correct.
Rick Lippincott
Boston Technology
Wakefield, MA
rjl -at- bostech -dot- com
