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From: oleary@ux.acs.umn.edu (Doc O'Leary)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Mac running Windows was(Re: Will SoftPC ever emulate VGA)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 03:53:16 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.162625.19387@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Mar14.230656.10768@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <13353@helios.TAMU.EDU>
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In article <13353@helios.TAMU.EDU> mkh6317@summa.tamu.edu writes:

>Truth or fiction:  Most people who bought Windows 3.0 are not currently using
>                   it because it is a slow memory pig?

I can't say for most people, but on the 16 386SX's we have at the computer
lab I work in (brand new, came bundled with Windows and misc software 
installed, including Word and Excel), we've got the machine booting with
WordPerfect Shell.  The thing is, the machines don't even have have WP on
them! :-)  This does make it a bit of a pain when I want to play "Rocks"
(love those sound effects!), but that's the way the higher-ups want it,
and they seem to be from the "Anything that isn't an IBM is a toy" family.

I think anybody with less than a 386 has shelved it.  If not, they're
wasting an awful lot of time.

         ---------   Doc


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