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From: sysop@insider.zer.sub.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: re:Re: Atari's new machine
Message-ID: <9012071451.03.1630560603@INSID>
Date: 8 Dec 90 22:57:54 GMT
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> now? It's suppose to be a pretty good machine, I'd heard that it has a
> Unix/TOS operating system.  If only it wasn't being made by Atari.

If anybody plans to buy a TT for running Unix on it - forget it ! I've seen 
it in October at the Orgatec in Cologne, and it is SLOW !

They had a TT with 8 Megs running X, and it was almost slower than Amiga 
Unix running X. With 4 Megs Ram ! (people that know X know what that means - 
SWAP SWAP SWAP SWAP ...). Every time that guy moved a window, the whole 
thing would almost stop, and you could see it re-build the window and 
contents. Funny, but I didn't see such a behavior on an A3000 w/8Megs of 
Ram... 

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