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- From: walkers@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Sean Walker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: Info on "Voyager"
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 07:39:30 GMT
- Organization: California State University, Sacramento
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- Dan J. Fraser (dfraser@mother.com) wrote:
-
- > In article <4gbjno$cc@csusac.ecs.csus.edu> walkers@ecs.ecs.csus.edu (Sean Walker) writes:
- > > 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
-
- > In this case, there is a SERIOUS problem with your PC. Perhaps you should
- > take it to someone with a bit of computer knowledge and have it looked at
- > -- it should easily blow away the 14MHz AGA A1200. Easily. With half its
- > RAM tied behind its back. No contest.
-
- > --
- > Dan J. Fraser -- dfraser@mother.com
- > http://www.mother.com/~dfraser
- > IRC Nick: Optic Finger me for PGP public key
- > I exist as I am, that is enough. - Walt Whitman
-
- I wasn't talking raw processing power. I was talking about usability and
- multitasking. If I am running Netscape, most programs either refuse to
- run or will GPF the system. There are several bugs in Netscape that
- allow this, but I was using a literary term called a hyperbole, except
- that it wasn't a gross exaggeration. I load up PhotoChop and watch
- as I can no longer run anything else. I run GroupWise and, well, nothing
- else at all.
- The problem I am referring to is a simple little RAM
- limitation. It is not the 48M, it is the 640K. Being on a network, much
- of my 640K is already used up. I fire up Windoze and lose the rest. I
- use PC's at work. I ENJOY coming home to my 14Mhz A1200 because it is
- faster to use. The machine starts up faster. The windows draw faster.
- The programs load faster. The jpegs load slower. The archives
- compress/decompress slower. I live with that, and I would LOVE to have a
- faster processor. Even without the fast processor, my machine is fast.
- If I had a fast processor, then look out! Have you ever just double
- clicked on the WordIMPerfect icon and sat back and watched? On anything
- less than a Pentium, it is enough time to get a cup of coffee and enjoy
- it. WordIMPerfect is a HUGE program that does not do anything, anything
- worthwhile that is. My wife uses a 386SuX16 at work and you should see
- WordIMPerfect scream (in agony that is). I have yet to see any Amiga
- application as memory hungry as the typical Windoze program. Even
- Lightwave(Amiga) uses less memory than does WordIMPerfect or PhotoChop!
- I would hate to see Lightwave on a Windoze machine.
- To sum it all up, my A1200@14Mhz can run faster within less ram
- in practical running situations than the Pentium I use at work, but the
- Pentium will trounce my A1200 in raw power any day. I would love to have a
- processor set up like the $1.3Million server I saw the other day (8 DEC
- Alphas@300Mhz and half a gig of RAM etc.), but it is a little out of my
- butget range. Even the 68030 accellerators are out of my budget right now!
-
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