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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:08:14 GMT
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- In article <exuptr.408.0@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
-
- >>I get the feeling
- >>that Intel and the compatibles have a conspiracy going on about forcing
- >>the need for more MHz.
- >
- >Sorry, I disagree. It is the users who make this push, with the hunger for
- >more power in the code. It is true that you can write highly optimized code
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >that is faster than Windows, but not with all of the software-connectivity
- >that Windows has. Suddenly when you buy new software, you don't have to
- >pick mouse, printer, graphics, sound, etc... drivers for each one. You just
- >do it and it's done. That's where the HP's are going.
-
- Very true. It'll also take forever to write. Observe Geoworks. Written
- in Assembler. Very fast. Lots of promise. But it will never catch up
- since the code takes so long to write.
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