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Started by Wooly Mittens
Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:38
Fancy Workbenches Wastefull
Author: Wooly Mittens
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:38
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:38
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Every time I go to my local computer club meeting and some of the younger people (14-18) see what I render in a month, they assume my system is pretty gargantuan. It always surprises them when they find out I've got as much memory as them, 2M chip 4Mfast, and their software (like imagine3) tells them politely to buy more mem or bust. Without failing it is always the same problem, when I mosy over to their computer, 8 or 16 color magicWB's glare at me. What posesses these people to waste anything from 0.5 to 1 meg on backdrops, noises and fance system patches(sensless colored pull down menus). It's no wonder half their software doesn't run anymore, it lookes like they're running bloody windows95 for crying(out loud). So the first thing I fixed has nothing to do with that take a look in your ramdisk after startup using a file- manager (like Dir-opus), what's there: AAARGH (yes?). So I loaded in my startup-sequence and assigned ENV: to use sys:prefs/env-archive/ as a dumpsite instead (that is where it gets it's junk in the first place). The second thing is to use (and live with) a 4 color WB a sad thing indead but my Eric-Schwartz'-Squirrels-on-Intel-outside- logo-bench more than makes up for this and my toolbar reads 2000000+ chip and 4000000+ fast every time. Wooly Mittens.
Re: Fancy Workbenches Wastefull
Author: Gi
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:22
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:22
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Wooly Mittens wrote in <316EBF4B.6345@ptfe12.hro.nl> on 12-Apr-96 20:38:35 : >What >posesses these people to waste anything from 0.5 to 1 meg on >backdrops, noises and fance system patches(sensless colored >pull down menus). It's no wonder half their software doesn't >run anymore, it lookes like they're running bloody windows95 >for crying(out loud). People customise their Workbench to either make it easier to use, or to make them feel more at home with their computer. This is the 1990's, the awful days of black & white dos prompts is coming to an end, the GUI is the office desk of the future. I run various patches, mainly to correct problems with the OS not just to change the cosmetics of the system, problems such as scroller gadgets in 1:1 aspect screens.
Re: Fancy Workbenches Wastefull
Author: J. Sadler
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:59
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 20:59
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: Wooly Mittens. : The second thing is to use (and live with) a 4 color WB a sad : thing indead but my Eric-Schwartz'-Squirrels-on-Intel-outside- : logo-bench more than makes up for this and my toolbar reads : 2000000+ chip and 4000000+ fast every time. [applause]. Agreeing w Wooly here, WB needs not to look all nice and colourful. Save your ram for the stuff that needs it and u actually use. (JMO i only use WB for handy program access and mass file transfering.) As for my toolbar i can only get +810000/1000000 with no prefs and min assigns (799999 w prefs and loads of assigns). Wooly do u have a secret your keeping from us =) -jeff - Link loss in 4 days ; if anyone is waiting on mail, act quickly!!
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