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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT Surfer Package
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 96 19:50:35 GMT
- Organization: E. Scrooge's Humbug Factory
- Message-ID: <9602051950.AA0041j@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
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- George Sanderson (aissande@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au) wrote:
- > Brian Skreeg <oz@ozzy.demon.co.uk> writes:
- >
- > : Sad news this. This is one step closer to incorporating MUI into the OS.
-
- [snip]
-
- > I shake my head reading your thoughts... The only way to upgrade AmigaOS
- > would be to write something similar to MUI. Why bother? Someone else
- > has written it, so why not use it ? The days of 40 meg hard disks and
- > using primitive GUI via gadtools.library should be long over.
-
- Because MUI is a big drain on system resources.
-
- > btw, download MUI 3.2 from Aminet and then tell me that it's "bloated".
-
- It's bloated, even 3.2 which is the most improved version so far.
-
- Answer this, why is it that I can run Grapevine and AmiFTP quite
- happily and have memory to spare, but if I do the same with AmIRC and
- AmFTP (which are both great programs) I'm scraping the depths of my
- 10MB of memory?
-
- Paul
-
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- "Ambassador Delenn is in a cocoon."
- 'A cocoon? As in a moth or a butterfly?'
- "Yes, sir. About yea high."
- -- Ivanova and Sheridan, "Points of Departure"
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