Re: METAL is now FREE!!!!!!

[szatezal@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Shane M Zatezalo)]

In article <24321@drutx.ATT.COM> dvac@druwa.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon) writes:
>
>All this talk about METAL...Well, I will say that if you are running on an
>un-accelerated Apple //e, or even a Transwarped //e....I would not recommend
>METAL/FV for you.  I ran a Metal BBS for about a year (used to run on ACOS),
>and the switch ended up driving away a lot of users because it took forever
>to do many things that used to be quite fast under ACOS.  If you have an
>8MHz //gs, METAL is a great way to go....But if you are on a budget with a 
>normal //e...I would not suggest METAL as it is quite slow (painfully so, 
>really...)  
>
>My 1 MHz ACOS system ran about 5 times faster than by 3.8MHz METAL system.
>I have a //e w/1Meg RAM, 80 meg scsi HD, Transwarp //e (SCSI port was 
>accelerated), and a USR HST.   The one thing that is REALLY nice that METAL
>has and ACOS doesn't is the really slick full-screen editor that METAL has.

Whoa, just to point out something here:

Are you comparing (Acos w/ GBBS) & (Metal w/ Futurevision)???

Or are you comparing Metal with Acos?

If you compare the first above situation, Futurevision does a lot more
than GBBS. Just like (sorry guys) Proline does a lot more things than
Futurevision. 

But, if you compare Metal with Acos.... I would think Metal will win
hands down - on ANY system.

If you don't believe me, run the /same/ comparable code under both, 
and see what happens. I can't, I don't own Acos, so don't bother telling
me I should do it.



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