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From: dtiberio@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio)
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Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release
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Date: 9 May 91 19:19:50 GMT
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In article <1917021f.ARN1cdd@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au> dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au writes:
>In article <0o9Gv_t+1@cs.psu.edu>, Michael D Mellinger writes:
>
>> Here is the size of Improv and its help.
>> 
>> -rwxr-xr-x  1 me       wheel    1668841 Jan 23 09:57 Improv*
>> -rw-r--r--  1 me       wheel    1397626 Jan 23 09:57 bbqref.hlp
>> 
>> To much for you to handle?  Amiga users have such high standards.  To
>> bad the game companies are the only ones that can deliver products to
>> your satisfaction.
>
>Cor! Talk about code-bloat!
>
>1.5Mb of executable code, eh!

  And loading off of a hard drive at 28ms must take at least 10 seconds...
imagine loading it off of those awesome cd roms they used to have! Or 
maybe off of a streaming tape drive...ZZZZzzzzzz.....

>
>And only 1.2Mb of help text: usually help runs at 2 - 3 * code size. 
>
>Then again, I'm presupposing that this 'Improv' does something useful...
>
>[:-) for the humour impaired.]
>
>Dac
>--


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