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Re: Whats a NextStep/Intel?

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From: dmci... David Michael Mcintyre
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 20:32
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In article <2hh1u7$2...@giga.bga.com> "Wesley C. Smith" <w...@arissoft.com> writes:
>>>Oh yeah, it really screams???  From the reviews I've read it barely
>>>runs on a 16 mb machine, has little software available for it, but does
>>>sport a spiffy interface!
>
>>I personally don't think it 'kicks anything else' as far as speed goes
>
>It does kick anything else if you want to get any real work done (For games
>stick to DOS). If you are running NEXTSTEP/Intel in color you should put AT
>LEAST 24MB of RAM in your machine. I have 40MB in my PC and NEXTSTEP runs
>quite nicely. If you can't afford a reasonable amount of memory, it will run A
>LOT better in 2 bit gray-scale mode instead of color.

Good god what's the world coming to?  40 megabytes of RAM is a REASONABLE
amount?  Yeah, sure, I have $2,500 to invest in memory for my computer so
I can use an operating system with a spiffy interface.  NOT!!!  Hell, I
didn't pay THAT much for my entire computer.

>The only time my PC runs anything but NEXTSTEP is when it's running DOOM.

--Michael-- << dmci...@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmci...@vt.edu>>
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From: dmci...@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (David Michael Mcintyre)
Subject: Re: Whats a NextStep/Intel?
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