Re: Old 486 computer & external CD reader advice needed

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 11:59, Mike McCarty wrote:
> This is a common misconception. Windows is often portrayed as a cycle
> hog. Since doing benchmarks is one of my hobbies (I dunno why), I have
> run benchmarks on about a dozen machines I own, with three or on some
> even five different OS installed. Windows is not a cycle hog.

Until you try to do something... Benchmark the time to create a new
process on windows vs.about anything else, or the time wasted
in context switching among them.