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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Open Letter to an MS-DOS User
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.034835.25768@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 03:48:35 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.173225.4282@amd.com> <4123@uakari.primate.wisc.edu> <1991Mar28.235320.10269@amd.com>
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In article <1991Mar28.235320.10269@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
>>From article <1991Mar28.173225.4282@amd.com>, by phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai):
>>> jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle) writes:
>>>>on a daily basis. For instance, compare Pagemaker on a 16Mhz 68030 Mac and
>>>>a 16Mhz 80386 PC, or for any medium level CAD/illustration program on the PC to
>>> 
>>> You mean a 1-bit 512x340 display vs a 4-bit 800x600 display?
>>> 
>>> Gee, I wonder why a tiny mac can redraw its screen so fast...
>
>>As you yourself have said in another context:  "read what was written".
>
>>Do you see anything above that rules out a non-512x340 screen or a color
>>display?
>
>Sure, we all know how common those color macs with big screens are.

Actually, the systems that I was comparing in my original post were a 13"
Mac II screen in 8-bit mode vs. a PC with the same size of screen with a
lower resolution and in a lower bit mode.

Jess Holle