Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaab
From: rcbaab@eutrc3.UUCP (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Sun Remarketing:  The Lisa Revisited
Keywords: Lisa
Message-ID: <375@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 88 09:56:01 GMT
References: <179@dalcsug.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcbaab@eutrc3.UUCP (Annard Brouwer)
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, NL
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In article <179@dalcsug.UUCP> earhard@dalcsug.UUCP (Mark Earhard) writes:
>I am a lowely student who is hunting for a Mac.
Another one!

>a:  The sound circutry isn't the same as the plus.  "If the program adheres
>to programming standards there should be no problem, but if it makes
>direct calls it might cause some problems,"  says Sun.
>
>Just how often can I expect the thing to choke?  Will the Talking Moose
>send it into computer apaplexy?
A friend of mine is using an old version and it seems to work ok (email me for  more info). But a lot of the dirty software doesn't work.

>B:  it only runs at 5 mhz vrs the plus' 7.6 *I guess, please correct me*
>though screen redraw is about the same.  I'm doing 80% word processing,
>10% freform design *macdraw* and 10% games.
I think the latter will be very difficult! But the rest should work allright.
You really do not need a superfast system for wordprocessing (me thinks), but   I'm working on a MAC ED with two floppies and that eats lot's of disk IO time!

Annard Brouwer