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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 08:04:12 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4j07pc$b6d@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <4ij8ik$lba@serpens.rhein.de> <1923.6654T706T1568@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike) writes:
- >Hi, Michael van Elst , on 18-Mar-96 08:57:56 you scribbled....
- >>Like entering text, formatting it and printing it ?
-
- >if you want wysiwyg display, you pay for it in speed...
-
- Sure. But two points: I could do wysiwyg in reasonable speed on
- an 68000/7MHz (and most Mac people would agree) and for text-only
- the wysiwyg isn't much different from a text-mode display. No ?
-
- >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*
-
- Right.
-
- >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...
-
- Sure. But who are you that you load 250 Meg images (and that you spare
- 250 Megs of disk for that...).
-
- >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...
-
- Do you see that you want VM for exactly one reason ? To load big images ?
- Do you think that most people have to "load in this large scan" and that
- people that have to deal with big images are satisfied with a 030 ?
-
- I'd say that there are very few people that could use VM and that wouldn't
- need a faster CPU at the same time.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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