Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?

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From: John Sheehy
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 04:14

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In article <paul.4514@serena.iaehv.nl>,
Paul Kolenbrander <paul@serena.iaehv.nl> wrote:
>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.

While you're thanking them, ask them to write more useful and 
interesting apps for them as well...

John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>

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