Invisible escreveu:
> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Mostly because even on a PC with hardware far in advance of what the 
>>> Amiga has, Windows was *vastly* slower.
>>
>>   Far in advance? 12MHz CPU (if you were rich), no hardware graphics
>> acceleration of any kind, 16 colors (again, if you were rich)... How is
>> that "far in advance of what the Amiga has"?
> 
> Because the PCs at college had 133 MHz CPUs and 32 MB of RAM - multiple 
> times the Amiga's 7 MHz CPU (admittedly of completely different design) 
> and 2 MB of RAM. And yet, on such a machine, even something as simple as 
> closing a window causes huge amounts of disk thrashing.

Something "as simple" is not as simple as it seems.  Like, something as 
simple as displaying lines of text on the screen could take a few 
seconds on early mainframes and PCs...

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