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Article #1714Re: Whats a NextStep/Intel?
From: dmci... David Michael Mcintyre
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 20:32
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 $2,500 to invest in memory for my computer so I can use an operating system with a spiffy interface. NOT!!! Hell, I didn't pay THAT much for my entire computer. >The only time my PC runs anything but NEXTSTEP is when it's running DOOM. --Michael-- << dmci...@muselab.ac.runet.edu >> <<dmci...@vt.edu>>
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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!ruacad!dmcintyr From: dmci...@ruacad.ac.runet.edu (David Michael Mcintyre) Subject: Re: Whats a NextStep/Intel? Message-ID: <CJuEDH.I20@ruacad.ac.runet.edu> Keywords: NEXTSTEP Organization: Radford University References: <lehtin.758766553@nyquist> <2hd8ve$hja@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> <2hh1u7$20e@giga.bga.com> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 1994 20:32:04 GMT Lines: 22 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit