Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!archimedes.math.uwm.edu!jgreco From: jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu (Joe Greco) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: Piracy and Software Message-ID: <5283@uwm.edu> Date: 24 Jul 90 23:52:13 GMT References: <1990Jul16.221811.7115@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Jul16.222043.7094@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <5105@uwm.edu> <1990Jul18.150659.30066@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <5187@uwm.edu> <1564@abvax.UUCP> Sender: news@uwm.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics Lines: 45 In comp.sys.cbm article <1564@abvax.UUCP>, ejp@icd.ab.com (Ed Prochak) wrote: :From the little I have seen of PC clones, the only advantage is the :large storage of the hard drive. In quite a few graphics applications :the 64 can still beat a clone. That's because of the graphics hardware :built into the 64. Granted, games have been the main applications :really using this strength of the 64, but some of these are really :amazing. It's nice to have a single graphics option. One set of routines will always work. Having to deal with several levels of display capability from a multitude of vendors is a real bummer. A hard disk is a definite advantage. Having a predefined standard for a machine would also help. :Generally, I am of the opinion that the hardware advances have been :so great so fast, that much of what is "technologically" obsolete is :still useful. My reason is that developers moved onto newer platforms :before the previous platform was fully exploited. IBM just dropped support for our PC RT's. They are still some of the most useful (IMHO) machines around this campus. They run Xwindows, NFS, have most of the niceties of our large public campus machines and they aren't crowded all the time. :I will keep my 64 for a while yet. Me too. But mostly as a terminal. I still like it, I just don't have the time anymore. :-( :Edward J. Prochak Voice: work-(216)646-4663 home-(216)349-1821 : Email: {cwjcc,pyramid,decvax,uunet}!ejp@icd.ab.com :USmail: Allen-Bradley, 747 Alpha Drive, Highland Heights,OH 44143 :Wellington: ENGINEERING is "the ability to do for one dollar, : what any damn fool can do for two." Isn't that backwards? ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Department of Mathematics jgreco@archimedes.math.uwm.edu USnail: Joe Greco Voice: 414/321-6184 9905 W. Montana Ave. Data: 414/321-9287 (Happy Hacker's BBS) West Allis, WI 53227-3329 #include Disclaimer: I don't speak for the Math Department, the University, or myself.