On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:06:03 -0500, Paul wrote:

His 8500 has a 3770 processor, with four cores and eight threads.
He can "afford" some protection. He's swimming in performance.
His computer is roughly four times more powerful than mine
(as measured by Passmark).

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

Paul

That sounds like a pretty fast system, but I still cant see running that
much AV software. Seems excessive! One of the big problems with
computers is that everytime the hardware makers make a faster system, MS
bogs it down with all the bloat and crap they add to their newest OSs.
Then running all that AV stuff bogs it down more.

If drivers were made for Win98, to use on newer computers, I cant
imagien how fast it would run on a 3770 processor. But no drivers exist
anymore. Thinking back to my original XT computer, and my 286, 386, and
486 computers, the speed has only slightly increased, because everytime
the hardware is made faster, MS robs all the power. Even XP SP2 is
slightly slower than Win98, using a faster computer.