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- From: Derek B Shaffer <dsc4+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Advantages
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 00:51:07 -0500
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.amiga.advocacy: 6-Feb-96 Re: Amiga
- Advantages by Richard@ix.netcom.com
- > your statements regarding switching screens on the PC are _TOTALLY_
- > untrue. The screen switching is, for all practical purposes,
- > instantaneous. I love the Amiga as much as anyone but ...well I hate
-
- No, his statement was most definitely not "totally untrue". I have a
- P90 with a fast graphics card and 8 megs of RAM, and switching between
- apps in Win95 and OS/2 takes a VERY long time, so long that I am afraid
- to do it. I feel like my life is wasting away as I listen to the hard
- disk grind away (even in 16 colors) and watch the screen draw itself bit
- by bit. Basically, what happens instantaniously on a Mac or Amiga
- (well, pretty fast on a Mac anyway) takes on average 2-10 seconds on my
- PC. Win3.1 does it quite quickly if there are only one or two apps
- running, and slows down with more (not because it has to access the hard
- disk, it just slows down period).
- It sounds like you have a minimum of 16 megs of RAM on your PC,
- probably more. It is rediculous to need that much to get decent
- performance.
- About the situation of the Amiga - I won't be optimistic about it
- until I see a commercial for one. When that happens, we will know that
- Escom is serious about bringing it back.
-
- -DS
-
- "Once you start down the "Aaarrgggghh! Aaarrrggghhh!"
- dark path, forever will /\ -Chewbacca
- it dominate your destiny." /~^\/\^/\
- -Yoda / /`/^~\`~\ "65 2 slow." - DS
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- Derek Shaffer dsc4@andrew.cmu.edu (Carnegie Mellon) A3k/Emplant
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