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Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User

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From: Brain in Neutral
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 19:07
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From article <1991Mar28.173225.4282@amd.com>, by phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai):
> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
>>on a daily basis. For instance, compare Pagemaker on a 16Mhz 68030 Mac and
>>a 16Mhz 80386 PC, or for any medium level CAD/illustration program on the PC to
> 
> You mean a 1-bit 512x340 display with an 4-bit 800x600 display?
> 
> Gee, I wonder why a tiny mac can redraw its screen so fast...

As you yourself have said in another context:  "read what was written".

Do you see anything above that rules out a non-512x340 screen or a color
display?

--
Paul DuBois
dubois@primate.wisc.edu
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