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Article #2228Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
From: Jason Garman
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:30
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 1995 00:30
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In article <43iq16$mu2@orion.cybercom.net>, Jerry Shekhel <jerry@cybercom.net> wrote: >Juergen Wahlmann (ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de) wrote: >: > >: >Me too. It blew away a 68040-based Amiga. >: >: That's laughable. WinBloats does not run with PMT, the apps are by times >: larger therefore you need a much faster Intel machine to compete with a 68040 >: Amiga. >: > >The Amiga would be no competition. The large sizes of Windows apps are due >to their larger capabilities. Hell, I suppose you think the C64 word >processors were superior to them all, since they ran in 64KB. > Actually they had some nice wp's for the C64... amazing what programmers could do in 64kb... True they didn't have things like the "How do I go to the bathroom" Wizard and pretty itsy-bitsy little icons, but they sure as hell got the job done... >: > >: >I've seen Linux running on a 2MB PC, with 850KB free. >: >: You've seen it. Does X run? Do you worked with it? Do you have lounched a >: single application such as FrameMaker? >: > >FrameMaker isn't available for Linux, and no, it wouldn't run in 2MB. On >*any* platform. > I think Frame is available in an SCO version so theoretically you _can_ run it under Linux with the iBCS-2 emulator, just as I am currently doing with WordPerfect/X >: >: The Point is, with AmigaOS you can WORK in 2MB. >: > >How do you know? Have you launched an application like FrameMaker on it? >Again, on a C64 you can WORK in 64K. Does that make it a superior machine? > Actually that makes the people who programmed for it superior... Jason Garman / garman@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov!not-for-mail From: garman@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jason Garman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.destroy.microsoft Subject: Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!! Date: 18 Sep 1995 20:30:04 -0400 Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Message-ID: <43l2uc$mps@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <19950904.1178078.10674@olympus.net> <19950902.117E5D8.8BEA@olympus.net> <810154401snz129.os2O <43iq16$mu2@orion.cybercom.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov