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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 96 23:05:22 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: MUI 3.2
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4gg5@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 20 Feb 96 Steve Koren wrote to All:
-
- SK> bornhall@karkis.canit.se (Peter Bornhall) wrote:
- >> I don't consider a 68030 and 68882 both clocked at 40MHz as slow. Do
- >> you?
-
- SK> By 1996 standards it is abysmally slow.
-
- True up to a point - but luckily, most people don't need this
- kind of comparative standards. Their 020's and 030's work very
- nicely for the things they need - like word processing or
- doing some 28k8 Netting. Only a very, very small percentage
- of the general public actually needs brute force computing
- (this was the outcome of several computer use investigations).
-
- The usability of a computer is not determined by its comparison
- to other computer systems.
-
- Regards, Ruud (currently sick of the xxx vs yyy debates)
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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