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- From: vince@sci.kun.nl (V.G.J.M. Stoks)
- Subject: Re: Falcon Resolution, Audio Sampling
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.110613.1265@sci.kun.nl>
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Aug18.181846.3658@riacs.edu> <1992Aug19.095337.17381@sci.kun.nl> <9886@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 11:06:13 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In <9886@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au (Warwick Allison) writes:
-
- >vince@sci.kun.nl (V.G.J.M. Stoks) writes:
-
- >>You can't seriously multitask (and that's the way Atari
- >>seems to be going) with such a small screen. We want many windows open
- >>at once, so there has to be room for them on screen.
-
- >ahahahhah! Unix users have been multi-tasking with no troubles at
- >all, just using DUMB TERMINALS. You can always use multiple-screen
- >interfaces (eg. "miwm" for MiNT, which even though it is a quick-hack,
- >is still excellent; or for those keen - just port Unix "screens").
-
- I know, I know... Before I discovered a room full of SUN IPC's I used
- to work (well... read the news anyway) on some good old adm3a's. Now,
- if any terminal is dumb, it's these ones.
-
- >Multiple windows is not a pre-requisit for multip-tasking... though I
- >imagine BigScreens will appear for the Falcon even faster than they did
- >for the ST...
-
- It mightn't be a pre-requisit, but do I like to have it! Some programs
- don't run in bg nicely (they keep getting stopped for terminal output)
- (Yes I know there must be a solution for that...). I like TOSWIN a
- LOT; it gives me real XWindow-feeling; with the new Falcon GEM (I saw
- screenshots; nice face-lift, with 3D-style windows) it would even be
- Motif- or OpenLook-like. Whoopee!
- I just like "A4-windows" for TeX-previewing and such. For that, I need
- a big screen. I *can* open a 67-line window now, but with that tiny 6x6
- font. And that's with 480 vertical pixels. So I would like to have
- just a bit more on the Falcon, even if it's just in mono.
-
- >But are you really going to plug a $1500 monitor into your $1000 computer :-)?
-
- I've seen some reasonable XVGA monitors (768x1024), non-interlaced,
- color, for under HFl 1000,- (Look in your local newspaper what the
- exchange rate is... It's <600 US$).
-
- >--
- >warwick
- >--
- > _-_|\ warwick@cs.uq.oz.au /Disclaimer:
- > / * <-- Computer Science Department, /
- > \_.-._/ University of Queensland, / void (if removed)
- > v Brisbane, Australia. /
-
- Sander SToks
- vince@sci.kun.nl
-