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[Joakim Ziegler]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 01:50:45PM -0700, Alex Feinberg wrote:
>> "EFM isn't designed to run on a 486. In order toget the alpha blending
>> and anti-aliasing and overlays for backgrounds and all that stuff
>> people have been asking for some sacrifices have been made, and thus it
>> actually requires a lot of computing power to run the display of your
>> files."
 
> Yes, why do they use such CPU intensive code? Amiga Workbench, under which
> EFM is modeled (as told by some of the developers) ran on 50 Mhz, if not
> slower, machines. 

7.14 MHz, kid. In 512k of RAM, and no harddisk. And that held the OS *and*
had room over for some pretty decent applications. Add another half-meg of
RAM, and you could do *anything*. Not that I got to play with mine much, we
were too busy cleaning the highway on which the whole family lived in a
cardboard box.

> I do not wish to insult enlightenment hackers, I just argue that they are
> going about implementation of their ideas on a completely wrong way. 

I wish to insult enlightenment hackers. They're Australian, wear goofy hats,
can't fucking type, write unmaintainable code, and won't listen to reason.
I'm sure the list goes on, I'll welcome contributions.

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