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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- References: <jbickers.0m7q@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:36:20 GMT
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- John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- :
- : You are trying to dismiss the current stance taken by most of the
- : computer industry as just my opinion.
- :
-
- Most of the computer industry believes that Windows is not a worthwhile OS?
- I wasn't aware of this.
-
- :
- : Do you even admit that DOS is a broken vestige of the past?
- :
-
- Sure it's an antique, but why is it broken? It works just fine. BTW, when
- did this discussion shift from Windows to DOS?
-
- :
- : 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?
- :
-
- And Plan 9 is supposed to replace Unix. Does that mean that Unix is not
- a worthwhile OS?
-
- :
- : > 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.
- :
-
- It *was* always better, because Windows was moving 256-color graphics on an
- 800x600 screen, while the Amiga had 4 colors at 640x400.
-
- :
- : > 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.
- :
-
- It wasn't slow, but it certainly had room for improvement, just like
- everything does.
-
- :
- : *** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
- :
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- | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
- | Drummers do it... | Burlington, MA USA | in my book of memories. |
- | ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
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