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Article #2337Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
From: Benito Horta
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:41
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:41
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Kazimir Kylheku (c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca) wrote: : In article <edodge-2408951158270001@ip-pdx3-09.teleport.com>, : Edward Dodge <edodge@teleport.com> wrote: : >I don't know where you are getting your Mac info, but when Win 3.0 showed : >up, multifinder was already *years* old. I remember quite clearly : >because System 6 was the big thing then, and DOS users were telling me : >their sour-grapes line: "Who needs to run two programs at the same time : >anyway?" Apparently *they* did. Heh heh heh! : Right. And now Mac users are telling _their_ sour grapes line: "Who needs : pre-emptive multitasking and virtual, protected address spaces?" : Hey, there still is an Apple II newsgroup for die-hard zealots of a bygone : mini-era. : -- : Finger c2a192@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca for PGP public key. Or contact : one of the public key servers -- the key id is 0xD3C7995D. About macs one thing I notice (I own sevral computers, MAC/PC etc) that the macintosh seems snappier when opening windows, loading files etc. and this is speaking of a 68040 33mhz mac. without GUI accel. I wonder wy this is so.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bud.shadow.net!benny From: benny@shadow.net (Benito Horta) 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,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS... Followup-To: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy Date: 25 Sep 1995 22:41:37 GMT Organization: Shadow Information Services, Inc. Message-ID: <447b71$gfo@bud.shadow.net> References: <3vh2hc$9dd@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca> <edodge-2208952351010001@ip-pdx8-10.teleport.com> <41gsef$rdg@steel.interlog.com> <edodge-2408951158270001@ip-pdx3-09.teleport.com> <41nnp2INNn8r@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: anshar.shadow.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]