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- From: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper)
- Subject: Re: Fractint 2.1 is here!
- Originator: jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com
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- Date: Wed, 15 Jun 1994 13:11:42 GMT
- References: <1994Jun14.120902.22351@news.uit.no> <CrE3EK.C6E@unx.sas.com> <bruceb.771610162@vnet.ibm.com> <1994Jun15.091244.28111@news.uit.no>
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- In article <1994Jun15.091244.28111@news.uit.no>, terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Pedersen) writes:
- >In article <bruceb.771610162@vnet.ibm.com>, bruceb@vnet.ibm.com (Bruce Baltzer) writes:
- >|> jamie@cdevil.unx.sas.com (James Cooper) writes:
- >|> >In article <1994Jun14.120902.22351@news.uit.no>, terjepe@stud.cs.uit.no (Terje Pedersen) writes:
- >|> >> The manual now has a lot of slightly incorrect information since the
- >|> >> interface is changed to MUI. Some of the ...
- >|> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >|>
- >|> >Oh, well. So much for that. I was hoping to see a better version of
- >|> >Fractint, but now that you've made it rely on MUI, I'll just forget
- >|> >about it...
- >|>
- >|> >I know some folks really like MUI, and it does have a couple of nice
- >|> >features, but there's no way I'll use a program that requires it unless
- >|>
- >|> I agree... I personally don't like MUI. Having a program require a certain
- >|> library is one thing, but requiring a complete set of programs and graphics and
- >|> such I really don't agree with. MUI is slow, too...
- >|>
- >
- >You must be joking right? as for the size of the lib : arount 170k
- >if you have that little hard disk space left, well then thats not the
- >mui's fault. or if you've got a 68000 its not the mui's fault either.
- >The size is about the same as the post.library and it too is slow on a
- >plain 68000. Can't blame postscript for that, can you?
-
- No, no joke at all. My machine at home is an A3000/25, and I currently
- have about 400Meg or so free (just added a new drive :-), so its not the
- space.
-
- I just don't care for the MUI setup.
-
- >The only thing you need is the muimaster.library! no other files
- >is required! If you installet the whole thing it might get big.
-
- Its not as useful or interesting without all the extra files.
-
- I also don't install anything that requires ixemul.library, and I'm
- about to start nuking anything that requires reqtools.library, when all
- that is used from reqtools is also available in the OS. Yes, reqtools
- is really nice for 1.3 compatibility, to give a consistent interface,
- but when its used in a 2.1+ ONLY program...
-
- Just a personal "thing" here.
-
- >If enough people wanted a plain old text only interface I might
- >make one.
-
- No, I don't want a "plain old text only interface" on Fractint. What I
- would prefer is for people to use what's in the OS itself...
-
- --
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- Jim Cooper
- (jamie@unx.sas.com) bix: jcooper
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