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- From: johnsd2@lib101.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh bigots
- Message-ID: <cd311ng@rpi.edu>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- References: <strobl.722464896@gmd.de>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 00:19:13 GMT
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- In article 722464896@gmd.de, strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >In <9821+3a@rpi.edu> johnsd2@jec312.its.rpi.edu.its1 (Daniel Norman Johnson) writes:
- >
- >>In article 722437792@gmd.de, strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >[...]
- >>>Of course not! For one, people nowadays buy much more
- >>>computing power than they really need, because PCs are
- >>>- in comparison to Macs - cheap. This partially compensates the
- >>>smaller memory width, if the VGA card in use isn't too old.
- >
- >>Memory width?
- >
- >The number of data lines on the memory bus to the video memory.
- >8 or 16 bit for ISA cards, 32 bits for EISA and local bus
- >video.
- >
-
- Oh, that's what Ive been calling the bus width. I thought
- you meant something else- like perhaps PC video memory had
- a "width" somehow. I'd just love to lord that over you. :)
-
- Alas, 'twas not to be.
- ---
- - Dan Johnson
- And God said "Jeeze, this is dull"... and it *WAS* dull. Genesis 0:0
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