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- From: sloppy@mack.rt66.com (John Millington)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Info on "Voyager"
- Date: 20 Feb 1996 13:38:31 -0700
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- Sean Walker (walkers@ecs.ecs.csus.edu) wrote:
- : I love this debate. People are complaining about web browsing on ONLY 2M
- : RAM and not being able to run anything else at the same time. At work I
- : use a Pentium with Windoze 3.141592654 with 48M of RAM and can't run
- : more than Netscape. I love coming home to my puny little A1200 running at
- : 14Mhz and going faster than the Pentiums at work. I just thought it was
- : funny.
-
- I thought it was kinda funny for a few years too, but after a while
- it gets depressing. It seems like Windoze is getting a lot more
- development work than Real Computers. (BTW, if you're willing to try
- something fun, install OS/2 Warp on that 48M Pentium. You'll find it to
- be just as fast as your A1200 for most things, and even faster at some
- things.)
-
- 2M is very lame. We don't want people to buy these 2M Amigas and then
- say "Hey, people told me the Amiga was fast. But it doesn't seem any
- faster than my PeeCee. I got cheated." It's really unfortunate that
- they're willing to sell it w/out any fast RAM.
-
- Yog-Sothoth Neblod Zin,
- John Millington
-