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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: 12 Apr 91 04:39:22 GMT
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In article <y7dGywgl1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
>
>In article <46969@ut-emx.uucp> greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) writes:
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>   Don't you see that it's kind of outrageous (even on a Unix box) to require so
>   much memory before you get a decent response out of the GUI?  Sure, it's "just
>   fine" with 8MB... until you start running something else and NeXTStep gets
>   swapped out.  I'm not defending X Windows either.  They're both memory pigs.
>
>Memory is cheap.  It's now less than $200 for 4MB, and prices are
>still dropping.  It's almost like complaining that someone is wasting
>paper clips.  Who cares?
>
>-Mike

  I'll tell you who cares. I just got Microsoft Word today. It takes
up 680k on the disk, just for the application file (Macintosh). Meanwhile,
I have two other outstanding word processors (Pro Write and excellence!)
each of which COMBINED do not take up that much (Amiga)! 

  I really get mad when I find out that a program requires 4 megs to run,
when it is nothing more than a weak destop publisher, which competes with
300k or less Amiga DTPs. 

  I can boot a bare bones system of 512k and only use up about 50k for
the system, which leaves over 460k to run any software I want to. I hear
that the current Mac OS requires at least 1 meg or more, and that 
Windows 3.0 requires 2 megs. And to think AmigaDOS requires .05 megs....

  So when do we see some real programming? :)

  Just look at Berksoft's GEOS Ensemble for the PC. It will run on anything,
plus it allows multitasking or single tasking. And all Microsoft can come
up with is Mr Elephant, Windows 3.0.

-- 
    David Tiberio  SUNY Stony Brook 2-3481  AMIGA  DDD-MEN  Tomas Arce 
           Any students from SUNY Oswego? Please let me know! :)

                   Un ragazzo di Casalbordino, Italia.