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- From: ccb8m@onyx.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.191345.5514@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
- References: <#gt25kc@rpi.edu> <1992Dec23.170834.17755@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 19:13:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.170834.17755@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- >Frank R. Dana Jr. (danaf@bray1b.its.rpi.edu) wrote:
- >: |>
- >: |> It's funny how Amigoids love to assume that "Only Amiga Makes It Possible".
- >: |> I routinely run several command line sessions, a game, and the Windows
- >: |> (or OS/2) desktop, each in its own screen on a PC with VGA.
- >:
- >: [...]
- >:
- >: Oh, right. I remember now. Windows does that silly full-screen-mode app switch
- >: thing that nobody ever uses. It takes FOREVER to switch between those screens!
- >: I prefer being able to drag ProPage halfway down the screen and still be able
- >: to see what I was doing while I search for a missing file in a Shell window
- >: (which I did yesterday..)
- >
- >It takes ZERO time to switch from the Windows (or OS/2) GUI screen to
- >a full-screen DOS (or OS/2) session, unless you are running Windows on a 286
- >or below.
- >
-
- WHAT!? Intel chips based on the 80386 or higher are faster than the speed
- of light? You mean they actually operate at the asymptote (Do Screen/0) :)
- :) :) :).
-
- Sorry I'm punchy and couldn't resist....
-
- Charles C. Bundy IV
- ccb8m@virginia.edu
-