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Article #8685Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
From: Paul Kolenbrander
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:50
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:50
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On Fri, 15 Mar 96, John Sheehy typed the following line(s): > >Perhaps he doesn`t want to wait 20 seconds for a drawer to open. > >It strongly looks like Billy c00ded Win95 in QBasic. > What version of Win95 is this? On mine "drawers" open in a fraction of a > second, even while formatting a floppy it takes no more than 1.25 seconds. Wrong question. :-) The right one would have been 'how much memory does you PC have?' as with less than 16MB Win'95 is a dog. It works, sure, but it's slow as molasses. And even with 16MB it grabs all of that 16MB on startup. Thank the programmers I can run FreeBSD and OS/2 on my PC as well. Cya, --__ /_/ |/ E-mail: paul@serena.iaehv.nl /aul |\olenbrander WWW : http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul/ -o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- \_ Please finger paul@iaehv.nl to obtain my PGP Public Key _/
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!serena.iaehv.nl!paul Organization: PKS MultiMedia Consulting. Your one-stop WWW shop... X-URL: http://www.iaehv.nl/users/paul Reply-To: paul@serena.iaehv.nl Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas? References: <4hpc4j$kij@trog.dra.hmg.gb> <4hq23n$df1@serpens.rhein.de> <D> <judas.0io8@tomtec.abg.sub.org> <jsheehyDoAEoB.8pA@netcom.com> X-Newsreader: ADMaN 1.7 Copyright 1995 S.T.Brown From: paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander) Message-ID: <paul.4514@serena.iaehv.nl> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 14:50:20 +0100