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- From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.ea.vwL2aGHIWlI@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: InterZONE Design
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: PC VS ST
- References: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: PC VS ST
- Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:25:32 EST
- Lines: 26
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- In <727576933.AA01168@contrast.wlink.nl>, Peter Kocourek writes:
- > Chris Herborth wrote in a message on 17 Jan 93 to All
- >
- > CH> I guess you've never played with a Quadra then... We've got
- > CH> Q700s in the computer store at U of Waterloo; courtesy of System
- > CH> 7, it feels about as fast as my ST. Naturally, it'll crunch
- > CH> numbers faster, but it doesn't feel any faster. I can just
- > CH> imagine sys 7 on slower macs... yikes!
- >
- > My experiences running System 7 are quite different: I am running it on a
- > Mac IIsi, and to me, it does feel a lot faster than my old ST. Your
- > mileage may vary.
-
- I imagine it wasn't set up very well (and it was running on a nice large
- monitor), or it was starved for RAM (and using virtual memory to make up
- for it).
-
- It did feel faster than my ST (and it was _nice_ having the 16" monitor
- on there), but not (unfortunately) faster than the '486/33 I use at work.
- This is not to say I'd rather have the PC I use at work than the
- Quadra... it's just got enough RAM to use Windoze (ie, 8M of RAM) and a
- fast disk.
- --
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- Chris Herborth
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-