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I've used QB87 for 12 years.  Compiled code running with BRUN3087 ran fast under older Windows.  The DOS under those Windows operating systems was fine.  The DOS emulated in NT and Win2000 is not fine.  I can tolerate the ugliness of the window display.   The running times are the problem.  I'm designing optics.  My programs are numerical and generally take many hours to run.  With earlier Windows and pentium chips, speed was directly proportional to the clock speed of the chip.  Now Win2000 with a 2GHz chip runs my programs less than half as fast as Win98 with a 500 MHz chip.  Question.  If I install Win98, or DOS, on a new 2GHz system, will the QB87 compiled code run four times as fast as Win98 with a 500MHz system?  Is that how to enjoy quaint QB plus the fast times?
Thanks.
DC

yes - I think that's your only option - dos is not native on Win2k etc and so has to be a simulated sort of dos mode for qb - at least that's my experience with the pcs at work which have xp whereas I'm still on 95 and 98 machines at home which run as quick (at least) as on the athlon megabest pcs at work

I heard something about setting QB's idle sensitivity property to low to cope with the speed problem. I've never used Win2K or WinXP, so I can't really say if this works or not. ???