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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 21 Mar 96 11:46:31 +0000
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- Hi, Michael van Elst , on 18-Mar-96 08:57:56 you scribbled....
- >mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin) writes:
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- >>: Of course you can be more productive with Word, but not 100 times as
- >>: productive.
-
- >>more. Besides, who is to say that you're not being 100x more productive
- >>with a P100 than with an XT? There are plenty of things that you simply
- >>could not do on an XT that you can do on a P100.
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- >Like entering text, formatting it and printing it ?
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- if you want wysiwyg display, you pay for it in speed...
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- Mind you, step back and think about it.... my local garage uses an amstrad 1512
- for his price lists/windscreen prices - and it *gets the job done fine*
-
-
- >>: >There is plenty of software that requires an MMU.
- >>: Name two.
-
- I only need to name one...
-
- VM - I wouldnt mind it slowing to a crawl as I ran out of "real" memory...at
- least it would get the job done instead of a crappy "OUt of memory" requestor
- (even an "out of physical ram...use VM yes/no" would be ok)
-
- I don't like the idea of the "windows syndrome" where there is a bloated OS
- where VM is used for everything since noone (ok, few people) have 32 meg ram,
- but I do like the way (if I had a spare week, and lots of hd space) I could load
- a 250meg image...
-
-
- >>I personally know of a few people who own base 1200s and wanted to install
- >>NetBSD
- Linux is gainining ground though... (PCs...)
-
-
- >>Anybody who has never got an "Out of Memory" box thrown in their face
- >>obviously isn't much of an Amiga user,
-
- >... or has enough memory for the tasks he does.
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- Yes this is the ideal situation...if you use VM alot then you need more ram,
- but its that close-to-the-deadline "load in this large scan" situation that
- annoys...
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-
- Mike
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