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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:34031 comp.os.os2.advocacy:76052 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5077 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!qns1.qns.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!bonkers.taronga.com!peter From: peter@bonkers.taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Linux thoroughly insulted by Infoworld! Organization: Taronga Park BBS Message-ID: <D2x7FL.F1M@bonkers.taronga.com> References: <Aj8xsU600iUvQ3=FpN@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 17:33:21 GMT Lines: 25 In article <Aj8xsU600iUvQ3=FpN@andrew.cmu.edu>, Ian S Nelson <bonovox+@CMU.EDU> wrote: >Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.os2.advocacy: 21-Jan-95 Re: Linux >thoroughly insult.. by Nathan Hand@bin.anu.edu. >> Are you arguing that *supported* software like MS-Windows *works*? >What does windows claim to do that it cannot? Multitask? (having just sat there for an hour waiting for a Windows program to rotate a 600 dpi image. If it were running a real O/S it might have still taken as long (though probably not, due to better VM) but at least the machine wouldn't be *useless* while it was going on) >And performance is just a prejudice. On two >side-by-side 486s I think the windows performance would be comparable if >not faster than the X window system on linux doing similar tasks. My experience is otherwise. And I'm running X and Windows for similar tasks (image manipulation, in this case) on similar hardware. Windows has the applications, or I wouldn't be using it, but DAMN it's frustrating to have the system locked up because some program is crunching. My *Amiga* does a better job than that!