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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: My disillusioned self.
Summary: Windows software is extremely slow
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Date: 4 Mar 89 18:10:33 GMT
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Whether you call IBM graphics slow in comparison to the Mac may depend on
whether you are talking MS Windows or not.  I know that PageMaker 2.0
on the Mac BLEW AWAY PageMaker 1.0 on an IBM AT.  Isn't the AT, with its
286, a generation ahead of the SE with its 68000?  But doing a zoom
on the Mac was always 3 or 4 times faster than the AT.

I have heard that the problem is not necessarily the IBM, but is probably
MS Windows, which is--I hear--notoriously slow.  Just watching the screen
manipulations of QuickDraw versus Windows has convinced me that QuickDraw
is much smarter about how and what to redraw, etc..


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)