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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:07:41 GMT
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- > On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800, robert loss
- > <rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
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- >>it runs fine. (albeit only with small pictures because of my RAM). I use
- >>Pentium P6's at Uni with all the fruit, with Windows 95, on 17inch, 64
- >>bit wide display cards, and I must say that they are powerful. Windows 95
- >>is HUGE. But I prefer to do all my work on the Amiga because it still
- >>runs faster than those Pentiums. For example, I created an animation in
- >>Corel Draw 6.0's 3d renderer, and rendered a postage stamp video of it.
- >>Probably about 200x200. After 12 hours it still had not completed (100
- >>frames). On Imagine 3.0 (which I got of the cover of a magazine for $10
- >>Aussy) I rendered a 780x512x256 colour 50 frame animation and it took 38
- >>hours. Now with all the P6's power I would have figured it would be
- >>quicker, but then again it was inside Windows 95. The ONLY gripe I have
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- > Somehow I find this difficult to believe.
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- Oh I don't know if they really are running the new Pentium Pros (P6)..
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- Win95 cripples the P6 because of the non 32 bits of Win95
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- if they switch back to the P5 then it will run quicker..
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- hehe
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- ironic huh?
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- Lee
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