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- From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: Tue, 02 Apr 96 10:01:14 -0800
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <84647-828468074@mindlink.bc.ca>
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- In article <4jfr76$mer@daily-planet.nodak.edu>, nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu
- (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <4jfr76$mer@daily-planet.nodak.edu>
- > References: <315A9A35.1CF7@xnet.com>
- > Posted: 29 Mar 1996 05:07:50 GMT
- >
- > Org. : North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network (NDHECN)
- >
- > Frank Salvatini (My what a crock of bull!) wrote:
- >
- > : Peter, you are living proof that if you stare at the hardware too long
- > : you will go blind. The Mac 7200/75 with 8megs of ram will do nothing.
- > : Photoshop is so slow on that config, that you can brew coffee between
- > : screen refreshes.
- >
- > Try getting more RAM. (And don't you dare scream bloat--tossing
- > around graphics files like PhotoShop does takes a lot of RAM, and if you
- > don't have it it hits the hard disk almost continuously.)
- >
- > : Speaking of which, you get no 24-bit screens from
- > : that config with out adding more stuff (DiaMOND STEALTH = $1000 or
- > : $800 depending on ram config,).
- >
- > Why the hell would you spend a thousand bucks for a card? You *did*
- > know that more VRAM can be easily and cheaply added to the 7200, yes?
- > Apparently not. Boy, I'm glad you don't manage our local machines! We'd
- > be broke within the week. :-)
- >
- > : Mac software is so fat that without 32
- > : megs of ram at least, you'll be playing a few games and typing letters
- > : at most.
- >
- > Congratulations! In the absence of "tempest", you win the "biggest
- > crock of BS" award! Sheesh. I've got 16 Meg and have NO trouble with
- > running out of RAM. Matter of fact, I turned off VM and tossed
- > RamDoubler. Of course, I can only run a couple development environments,
- > a resource fork editor, 'works' package, telecom programs, and a half
- > dozen little odds and ends at once. I feel TERRIBLY stifled. :-)
- >
- > : So climb down of that high horse before you hurt yourself.
- >
- > Better yet, how 'bout you yank yer head outa yer arse before you fart
- > and get a terminal case of halitosis? (Psychiatrist: "Oh dear--this
- > isn't good. He seems to be regressing to his primal behavioral
- > patterns...")
- >
- > ----
- > "I was practically naked, dressed as a dominatrix and was slapping the
- > audience with this huge rubber dick I was carrying. (Bill Gates)
- > wandered by, so I started screaming 'Serve Me! Serve Me!' and put the
- > dick on his shoulder--at which point, he emitted a mouse-like squeal and
- > ran away. It was quite a scene." Slymenstra (GWAR)
-
-
- Nathanael, you too can take your postings out of the general AMIGA
- groups and confine them to advocacy, they are not appropriate to a
- regular AMIGA group. If you have difficulty doing this contact the
- sysadmin for your site and get him/her to explain how messages are
- addressed to usenet newsgroups and how to focus their delivery for
- appropriate ones.
-
- While I've got you here you should set up a real world task or two
- and then present the costs, equipment and timelines needed to make
- it or them happen because direct comparision between the Mac/AMIGA
- mindsets and apps and OS's just isn't working. Specs may be a real
- big thing in your crowd but in mine it is ability to perform. With
- a real life project you can demonstrate what you mean and show the
- performance that enabled it to occur.
-
- Terry
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