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- From: rcmerrit@apgea.army.mil (Robert C. Merritt <rcmerrit>)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows Lameness
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.203045.7801@apgea.army.mil>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 20:30:45 GMT
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- In article <BzqvM4.CvM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> gcastrat@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Giancarlo Castrataro) writes:
- >
- > Ok, about a day ago I was using my friend's 486 / 33 / 256k cache
- >/ Trident SVGA / Whatever (Computer) with Windows, and it was virtually
- >unusable in the 16 color mode, from my point of view. I don't use GUIs very
- >often, but this really crawled compared to my 3000 at home. Don't give me
- >this "It's not the computer's fault, just Microsoft's problem" argument.
- >The fact is that most IBM users use Windows, and are lucky if they even have
- >a 486. I wouldn't go around comparing Windows on a 386 with a 60840 Amiga
- >running SVR4, now would I? Ah, the final argument: bitlanes: well, for one
- >thing it was only running 16 colors, and my Amiga doesn't even have AGA or a
- >graphics card / coprocessor.
- >
- >-Giancarlo V. Castrataro
-
-
- Ahh.. but if it only had 4 megs of ram (or less) and a swap file, I don't
- care what processor you have, windows will crawl! (for my taste anyway. My
- dad has a 486 sx with 4 megs and is just pleased with Windows performance)
- However, I've "played" with a 3000 one evening and I don't think that its
- windowing system was any faster that Windows. (I'll agree that Amiga
- 3000 will run multitasking rings around a dos+windows, although os/2 is
- about equal. IMHO)
-
- Rob Merritt
-