Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be

[camin@grove.ufl.edu (Chintan Amin)]

In article <dil.admin.2224.0010607D@mhs.unc.edu>, dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu
(David I. Laudicina) wrote:


@  Oh I see if you are a current MAC 68xxx your not going to have to buy a new 
@ machine (PowerPC) to really take advantage of 7.5 (still cooperatively multi 
@ tasking) and 8.0 which starts to take on the capabilities of 95. If your win 
@ 3.1 machine has 8 meg you can run win 95 quite nicely.
@ Thx Dave L

   Actually, MacOS itself runs equally well under the RISC and CISC Macs,
since it runs under 040 emulation on RISC machines.

   But Wait!!!... MacOS starts to take on the characteristics of Win95? 
What, in the fact that it will be late and buggy?  Cooperative
Multi-Tasking on the Mac is quite different from that on the Win16. (In
that it works, right now I'm running Excel 5.0 (recalculating a
spreadsheat as I type), VA Newswatcher, Eudora, and Sim City 2000)  I'm
not going to defend the problem of MacOS 8.0 being purely for RISC Macs
(Apple has said it will come out with a parallel OS or upgrade for 68K
machines), but frankly, to take advantage of any Win95 "upgrades" (color
is an upgrade when starting with Win3.11, right?) you have to buy new
software (Win32 + long file names), new equipment (plug & play) and even a
new Keyboard (DEC is shipping new machines with a Win95 Keyboard)...

   And, btw, as long as you don't try to run sooooo many extensions under
7.5.1, you can run 8MB no problemo.  I'm running 16MB and the only
problems I have are with Microsoft Applications.  Probably because MS
doesn't care about elegance in design (Hell, look at Windows) and
therefore doesn't mind that its programs are memory hogs...

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Chintan Amin   camin@grove.ufl.edu    http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~ca3155
University of Florida College of Law Class of 1998
University of Illinois College of Engineering Class of 1995
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