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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 12 Feb 96 10:30:25 +0000
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- Hi, Frederick V. Heitkamp , on 10-Feb-96 13:09:46 you scribbled....
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- >It's an unfortunate fact the joe public has been brainwashed by the
- >general press to believe that you have to have a 133MHZ Pentium to
- >have a usable computer. Some of these computers that have less are
- >still quite usable. I am typing this on a 486DX2-66 and it is
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- Yes, you'd be surprised...some of those old Amstrad 1512's are still very
- useable at what they do....
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- >completely adequate for most purposes. One thing that bugs me is
- >that I also have a A4000-040/25MHZ and it SHOULD have been as fast
- >as my 486, but it isn't because of the memory subsystem design.
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- Is it really that bad? MY A4000/030 is cool (even compared to the P120 sitting
- next to it) ...or does the mem botlleneck only occur on C='s 040 card?
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- Mike
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