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- Path: netcom.com!jsheehy
- From: jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <jsheehyDoG3sF.5CL@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- References: <4hpc4j$kij@trog.dra.hmg.gb> <judas.0io8@tomtec.abg.sub.org> <jsheehyDoAEoB.8pA@netcom.com> <paul.4514@serena.iaehv.nl>
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:14:39 GMT
- Sender: jsheehy@netcom19.netcom.com
-
- In article <paul.4514@serena.iaehv.nl>,
- Paul Kolenbrander <paul@serena.iaehv.nl> wrote:
- >On Fri, 15 Mar 96, John Sheehy typed the following line(s):
- >
- >> >Perhaps he doesn`t want to wait 20 seconds for a drawer to open.
- >> >It strongly looks like Billy c00ded Win95 in QBasic.
- >> What version of Win95 is this? On mine "drawers" open in a fraction of a
- >> second, even while formatting a floppy it takes no more than 1.25 seconds.
- >
- >Wrong question. :-) The right one would have been 'how much memory
- >does you PC have?' as with less than 16MB Win'95 is a dog. It works,
- >sure, but it's slow as molasses. And even with 16MB it grabs all of
- >that 16MB on startup. Thank the programmers I can run FreeBSD and
- >OS/2 on my PC as well.
-
- While you're thanking them, ask them to write more useful and
- interesting apps for them as well...
-
- John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
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