Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia
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Re: TI-H: Off Topic, Windows 95 trivia
>On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 11:19:01AM -0900, Grant Stockly wrote:
>>
>> >I don't see why, a command line has no inherent superiorities
>> >over an intellegently designed GUI. The usual problem is that
>> >the interfaces are not well designed, Windows NT has always
>> >had some options in screwy places.
>> >
>> >Now, I'm not saying that not having a command interpreter
>> >is good, just that anything you can do on a command line
>> >you can also do with a GUI.
>>
>> Sure, but navigating with a mouse is alot slower than typing 70wpm.
>>
>> >Not sure why you would try to install two copies (multi-boot
>> >with the same OS maybe? one for testing, one for normal use?).
>> >
>> >Anyway, there is no excuse for releasing production software
>> >with major bugs, particularly in the installer.
>>
>> If you mess it up in most cases you have to remove the OS with another OS
>> or the installer won't create a fresh copy.
>>
>> Its sad that it can hardly play 2 movies on a 166MHz Pent... These movies
>> are 320x240 at 15fps. That is NOT good multimedia.
>
>Actually from what i'd heard the graphics speed far exceeded current UNIX
>implementations (i.e. X windows) and i can run nearly 10 movies at that
>res in my 1600x1200 desktop (AMD K6-2 300 w/128 megs of ram). Possibly
>you've got something set up wrong on that pent?
IT was one of the programmers of the BeOS.
>Because i know my 300 is
>faster, but it's not that much faster :> Of course, if these are MPEG
>movies, it's probably not the display speed but the decompression speed.
>MPEG video decompression is a fairly CPU intensive task (which is why you
>usually need an MPEG decoder card if you buy a DVD drive and actually want
>to watch movies with it :)
btw, 10 videos isn't too impressive. I can play 6 MPeg videos and I don't
have no card.
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