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- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m7q@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:45:39 PST
- References: <jbickers.0m72@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.002742.1488@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Quoted from <1992Dec28.002742.1488@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> by jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel):
-
- > ... But even if it *were* built on top of DOS,
- > why does that make it not worthwhile? See, you're still trying to pass off
- > your opinions for fact.
-
- You are trying to dismiss the current stance taken by most of the
- computer industry as just my opinion.
-
- Do you even admit that DOS is a broken vestige of the past? Are
- you aware that Microsoft themselves are writing a replacement for
- Windows, "Windows NT", in order to elevate Windows to the level
- that OS/2 2.0 is already at?
-
- You sound much like the old CP/M hacks in BYTE, who have been left
- behind by progress.
-
- > : Noticeably faster? So before Windows 3.1, your 386 PC's GUI
- > : performance was NOT "as good as or better than" an A3000's?
-
- > It was hard to tell, comparing a stock A3000 and my 386 with ET4000 VGA,
-
- And yet you calmly said that your 386's GUI performance had always
- been as good as or better than an A3000. Good stuff.
-
- > : sure why you're leaving it out now. Secondly, it shows that
- > : Windows at least had room for _software_ improvement to window
- > : updates. Which PC advocates here didn't seem to think possible
- > : before 3.1. No, back then it was talk of graphics accelerator
-
- > Have you ever heard of software that *didn't* have room for performance
- > improvement? If you think you have, you're badly mistaken.
-
- Not at all! But I remember people arguing before 3.1 that the
- Windows GUI performance was slow, and that the way Windows did
- updates was crippling it. You and people like you emphatically
- denied that, saying how cheap it was to get various graphics
- cards to boost performance.
-
- > | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
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