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From: 231b3678@fergvax.unl.edu (Phil Dietz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Workbench 2.0 Display utility
Message-ID: <1991Mar06.044021.25037@hoss.unl.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 04:40:21 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.165108.6571@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca> ewilts@janus.mtroyal.ab.ca (Ed Wilts) writes:
>Although I generally pleased with the overall appearance and performance of
>WorkBench 2.0, I am somewhat disappointed by Commodore's Display utility.
>It appears that Mostra easily outperforms Display in the time it takes to view
>a typical IFF file; on average I would say that Display is about 5 times slower
>than Mostra on my 2 MB 3000-16 under 2.0 (36.207/36.69).
>
>I would appreciate any comments on Display's usefulness.  Is Mostra faster
>because it is short-cutting something?  Is it simply using a better algorithm?
>
>[To prevent the usual barrage of questions about Mostra, it can be found on
>Fish 330]
>
>        .../Ed     Preferrred:  Ed.Wilts@BSC.Galaxy.BCSystems.Gov.BC.CA
>Ed Wilts            Alternate:  EdWilts@BCSC02.BITNET    (604) 389-3430
>B.C. Systems Corp., 4000 Seymour Place, Victoria, B.C., Canada, V8X 4S8

Just because it's from Commodore DOESN'T mean it's the best!  Commodore
supplied Display for the Amiga users without a modem or without
a users group.  
 
We modemers on the otherhand can find all sorts of neat and BETTER
alternatives over the network! :-)
 
Take for instance Commodore LIST and DIR.  They suck big time (with hardly
any power whatsoever).  We modemers can replace LIST with Newlist47 or
ls-jr for REAL POWER!!!
 
Phil Dietz

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