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Article #44062Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
From: Chris Whatley
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 06:48
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1989 06:48
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There are a few misunderstandings... 6600pete@hub.UUCP writes: >From article <22438@ut-emx.UUCP>, by chari@ut-emx.UUCP (Christohpher M. Whatlyey): >> Text scrolling is faster than IIcis I have used for sure. >Whoops. Try the NeXT being 4-bit mono and the IIci you might have used being >in 8-bit color. Whenever I'm doing heavy text on a color Mac, I turn all the >colors off. Performance skyrockets. That's what the Monitors cdev was designed >for. Well. It is grayscale, not mono for one thing. And, for another, I WAS talking about the mac in 1-bit mode. >> And disk access. Don't even try to argue that one. >You're kidding, right? The optical drive is hideously slow. The 100MB SCSI >Winchester is OK, but that's not standard, is it now? I wasn't talking about an optical. I was talkign about a *330* meg SCSI and anyway, the optical is (perceptibly) faster than most Mac drives that cost $1500.00 and give you 256 megs of storage on a $50.00 removable disk. Oops. I guess there aren't any. Oh well. -- Chris Whatley Work: chari@pelican.ma.utexas.edu (NeXT Mail) (512/471-7711 ext 123) Play: chari@nueces.cactus.org (NeXT Mail) (512/499-0475) Also: chari@emx.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!bigtex!milano!cs.utexas.edu!execu!sequoia!nueces!chari From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's? Message-ID: <1989Dec17.064813.16650@nueces.cactus.org> Date: 17 Dec 89 06:48:13 GMT References: <22438@ut-emx.UUCP> <3333@hub.UUCP> Organization: Nueces Inc. Lines: 31