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- From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.125448.1852@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:54:48 GMT
- References: <STDKAP1.92Aug27224620@icarus.spc.uchicago.e> <ewright.715459786@convex.convex.com> <1992Sep3.063936.18089@ugle.unit.no>
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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- In article <1992Sep3.063936.18089@ugle.unit.no> terjer@ifi.unit.no (Terje Rydland) writes:
- >
- >>>Windows effectively has no 640k barrier, and OS/2 cannot. Period.
- >
- >I think I will just tell a story:
- >
- >I have a friend who is definitely not a Mac user. He works in a place
- >where they produces maps, and they needed a system that could
- >manipulate maps in 24 bit colour. The datafiles for producing
- >these maps are about 20 - 60 MB in size, and they wanted to manipulate
- >these maps with commercial drawing packages like Illustrator or
- >Freehand or something similar. For speed they need to have all
- >the data in RAM as they work.
-
- I have a friend who was doing color manipulation research at IBM. They
- used a Quadra 950 for the same reason.
-
- Jess Holle
-