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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 10:16:08 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- integral@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu (Noah I Rosenberg) writes:
-
- >Reg Martin (mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
- >: Matthew Hunter (mhunter@shadow.res.cmu.edu) wrote:
- >: : On Fri, 8 Mar 1996 15:59:37 GMT, Reg Martin (mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca) wrote:
-
- >I refuse to believe that. I use an 020/14mhz and I am rarely finding myself
- >bothered by it's speed.. I wait more for the Pentium-90s that they have in
- >the computer labs here at school..and the Centris 650's.. lets not even
- >talk about those.. it takes like 5 minutes for photoshop to load
-
- Are you running anything like PhotoShop on your computer to compare it with?
-
-
- >, and the
- >machines are so bogged down with virtual memory that sometimes just
- >accessing the menu bar can be a cumbersome task.. and Netscape.. netscape is
- >slow and boggish in it's own right, it's jerky, it loads weird, and it has
- >crashed every time I've used it this semester (that is about 35+ sessions).
-
- Whose fault is it that they are trying to run PhotoShop without enough
- RAM? Does anything like Netscape exists on the Amiga that you can
- compare it with? It never ceases to amaze me how Amiga users flame Macs
- about slow bloated apps by comparing it to low-end Amiga crap. If you
- want to talk about slow try putting that Amiga into a non-interlaced
- non-flickering graphics mode and see how it compares.
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