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Received: from ee.WPI.EDU (ee.WPI.EDU [130.215.16.20]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id LAA22216 for <executor@nacm.com>; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 11:39:40 -0700 Received: (bad@localhost) by ee.WPI.EDU (8.6.12/8.6) id OAA02643 for executor@nacm.com; Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:39:38 -0400 From: Bernie Doehner <bad@ee.WPI.EDU> Message-Id: <199508271839.OAA02643@ee.WPI.EDU> Subject: Re: Pirates To: executor@nacm.com Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 14:39:36 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 752 Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk > > >>>>> "Bernie" == Bernie Doehner <bad@ee.WPI.EDU> writes: > > Bernie> The real thing is always better than an emulator. Used SE/30's > Bernie> can be bought for $300. > > That's an interesting notion. Reminds me of the last time I used an > SE/30. Much slower than executor, has that awful little screen, and > usually has so little memory you can't run anything. If that's you're > idea of better.... Let's face it, the only thing an SE/30 is good for > is an aquarium. > Sorry, but my SE/30 with 33 Mhz. accelerator and 8 megs of RAM was just as fast as the Executor demo on my 486 dx33 8 megs of RAM linux box. The little screen isn't really much of a problem, and with the real thing I don't need to worry about stuff not working.