Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware

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From: Robert Cassidy
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 20:08

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In article <4130pi$59d@news.net-connect.net>, dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu wrote:

> That's true.  I can run Warp and cruise the Net with the built-in apps 
> (Web browers, ftp, gopher, newreader, telnet, archie), and **STILL**
> play Falcon 3.0 in it.  And hit Alt-Tab and switch over to Aces over
> Europe, and hit it again to go to Civilization, all while ftp'ing and
> d/l'ing from several sources.  Cool!
> 
> Can the Mac do this thing?

Sure. So long as the game isn't *designed* to hog the whole CPU. Many
times I've played a game like Ho! or Apeiron while compiling something in
the background or downloading something on my 7100.

I can even download a file using my Geoport which emulates a 14.4 modem
and play Ho! without any apparent slowdown with either the download or the
game.

-- 
Bob Cassidy
UC Irvine

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From: rmcassid@uci.edu (Robert Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Prices and questions about direction of PPC hardware
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:08:28 -0700
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