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Re: What do you do with a



>Tom Zuchowski wrote:
>> 
>> Make no mistake, I LOVE my IIe and IIgs, but something is seriously
wrong
>> with your PC if a 1mhz IIe is "10 times faster". My 133mhz, 32MB Cyrix
P166
>> is at =least= as fast running Word or Excel as my 7mhz IIe is running
>> Appleworks, and that while running WYSIWYG, auto-correct, and spellcheck
in
>> SVGA. I personally would not choose to use a 1mhz, 128K IIe and
Appleworks.
>> for serious computing.

A PC running windows or PowerMac, maybe doing twenty other things besides
what you see up front.  Add the fact that a lot of code on the PC and Mac
is written in C, it is not unbelievable that what you see the IIe doing is
faster then what you see a PC or Mac doing.

Clay
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