Re: ZipGS or Second Sight????

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <3pn3to$qpu@paris.ics.uci.edu>, jlee@ics.uci.edu (Orion Pax) wrote:

> Erik Kloeppel (erik@hypermall.com) wrote:
> : one.  In fact, the desktop is THE reason to get the SS - Graphics apps are
> : ok, but IIGS owners tend to live on the desktop - and the difference
> 
> Not always.  I know a few IIGS owners who rarely go into the desktop
> except to use finder or some other heavily used desktop program.  It still
> mostly text because one of the better comm programs (ProTERM) is text,
> AppleWorks (very useful for many things) is text, programming is mostly
> a text environment with either orca or gno, etc.  SS will have to have
> these most used programs usable on the graphics screen before the IIGS
> is truly desktop.
> 
Notice the word "tend" in my post.

> : between the IIGS desktop on the 640 X 200 rgb monitor and the IIGS desktop
> : on a 1024 X 768 desktop are incredible.
> 
> I would think truely slow on a 1024x768 no?  Just because you can draw
> boxes and lines fast on the screen doesn't mean you can draw bitmapped
> graphics fast, especially if you have lots of them.
> 
> I'm just going from what I've seen on the PC's where VGA is already
> somewhat slow on an ISA bus so that VESA/VLB is preferred now.  The GS
> is 1 mhz and I would think that will certainly limit lots of things.
> 
I dunno - here you'd have to talk to Jawaid.  But I'm sure they at least
addressed the problem.

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