Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!raven.alaska.edu!milton!stevep From: stevep@wrq.com (Steve Poole) Subject: Re: MegaMac Message-ID: <1991Jun6.001939.28047@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu (News) Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA References: <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 1991 00:19:39 GMT In article <55538@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Andy Patrizio writes: >Secondly, what in the world do you need 128 Meg of RAM for? Even UNIX doesn't >suck up that much memory. > >It sounds to me like a computer version of the Spruce Goose. Big, ugly, awkward > and useless. Big? 16MB SIMMs really aren't all that large. Ugly and awkward? Huh? How can you support a progressive platform like the Amiga when you have such a braindamaged regressive view? Sounds like you wear computer bigotry blinders. Gee, just a few years ago all I needed was 16K... Ever thrown 32 bit color images around? Done four color prepress work? Used a really big and deep virtual desktop? VM won't cut it. Big disk caches? RAM drives? USELESS? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- INTEL 80x86: Just say NOP -- Internet: stevep@wrq.com -- AOL: Spoole -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------