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- From: sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon)
- Subject: Re: How does 2.04 perform on A500???????????????????
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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:46:24 GMT
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- In <1heeljINNpcc@uwm.edu> jdblake@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (John David Blake) writes:
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- >I'm seriously contemplating purchasing the 2.04 ROMs. I have a 1 meg a500.
- >My question is:
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- > How will 2.04 perform on my A500
- > ????????????????????????????????
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- >Is it worth spending the $50, or should I invest in a nice trackball? My
- >concerns are eating up memory, working withOUT a hard drive, and anything
- >you might think is important. Thanks in advance!
-
- I don't know. 2.04 was what 1.3 should have been, and it does have a much
- more useable look and feel. It makes Workbench useable.
-
- I don't know how well it'd perform on a floppy. Memory is not a problem,
- it doesn't use that much more RAM, unless you go for the 16 color workbench
- look.
-
- If you don't have a harddrive you're not going to be able to make much use
- of the Compugraphic fonts, and some other nice big things.
-
- I'd say it's worth it. I held off buying 1.3 roms waiting for 2.04... It
- was about 3 years late in coming, so except the same for any rumored 3.1 for
- the 500.
-
- On caveat, 2.04 breaks a lot of older programs that worked fine under 1.3.
- If you've invested a lot of money early on(pre 1990) in buying software,
- don't expect any of it to work at all.
- --
- sheldon@iastate.edu Steve Sheldon
- Project Vincent ICSS Resource Unit
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- Iowa State University
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