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Article #176Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums
From: Jim Williams
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 13:54
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 13:54
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jimr@plato.simons-rock.edu (James A. Robinson) wrote: > >> My point is - with all the progress we've made - have we really >> gotten anywhere? > >Yes. The quality of output is *much* higher. After I had used my >school's NeXT printer to print off a paper, I decided to keep using it >instead of going back to my old inkjet. That kind of quality does >incur a penalty in processor use, and therefore speed in lower end >processors. Try showing two resumes to a manager, one from a >LaserWriter, one from an ImageWriter. I'm sure you get the point. > ???????? I almost never use paper, and haven't for over 10 years. One thing I'm decidely adverse to using as a measure of progress is how well you can lay waste to our nation's forests. -- Sphere. Find a Linux Group for you: http://www.tiac.net/users/williams/lugnuts/ Buy Linux brand UNIX!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sundog.tiac.net!usenet From: Jim Williams <williams@tiac.net> Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: What sux about PowerMacs and Pentiums Date: 1 Aug 1995 13:54:11 GMT Organization: Spherical Projections Message-ID: <3vlbm3$pof@sundog.tiac.net> References: <2889272621@hoult.actrix.gen.nz> <3veiv4$ro6@sundog.tiac.net> <3vgabe$339@falcon.ns.net> <us008008-3107950112340001@ppp-nyc-3-13.ios.com> <DCLyE6.C@plato.simons-rock.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: elision.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Windows; I; 16bit)