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- From: gregs@eskimo.com (Greg Sumner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: ST Upgrading
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.010122.26609@eskimo.com>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 01:01:22 GMT
- References: <5JAN93.09331877@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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- csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
-
- >Question: Why did Windows only become popular recently?
- >Answer: Until recently, no PC was fast enough to run it effectively.
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-
- On a similar note, I read a message a while back (I forget from whom)
- about a text editor for the PC that ran "considerably faster" than
- Tempus.
-
- This may be true, but only because the hardware was upgraded at a
- considerable expense.
-
- When will people realize the scam that Microsoft is pulling? Remember
- the 286? Remember that it only need 1 meg and a 20 meg hard drive?
- Did it do everything you needed it to do? Pretty much. So why do you
- now need a minimum 4 megs, windows, and a large hard disk just to have
- a system that will run the standard software?
-
- Microsoft is why.
-
- Why don't they build better software and quit relying on faster hardware?
-
- Money.
-
- Your money.
-
- --
- Gregory Sumner * gregs@eskimo.com
- Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, Inc.
- Seattle, Wa.
-