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From: chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: What do I want to see in the Apple of the 90's?
Message-ID: <1989Dec17.064813.16650@nueces.cactus.org>
Date: 17 Dec 89 06:48:13 GMT
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There are a few misunderstandings...

6600pete@hub.UUCP writes:

>From article <22438@ut-emx.UUCP>, by chari@ut-emx.UUCP (Christohpher M. Whatlyey):
>> Text scrolling is faster than IIcis I have used for sure.

>Whoops. Try the NeXT being 4-bit mono and the IIci you might have used being
>in 8-bit color. Whenever I'm doing heavy text on a color Mac, I turn all the
>colors off. Performance skyrockets. That's what the Monitors cdev was designed
>for.

Well. It is grayscale, not mono for one thing. And, for another, I WAS
talking about the mac in 1-bit mode.

>> And disk access. Don't even try to argue that one.

>You're kidding, right? The optical drive is hideously slow. The 100MB SCSI
>Winchester is OK, but that's not standard, is it now?

I wasn't talking about an optical. I was talkign about a *330* meg
SCSI and anyway, the optical is (perceptibly) faster than most Mac
drives that cost $1500.00 and give you 256 megs of storage on a $50.00
removable disk. Oops. I guess there aren't any. Oh well.


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Chris Whatley
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