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- TheTruth (bdupras@bert.eecs.uic.edu) wrote:
- : In article <3ngh19$it4@news.xmission.com>,
- : dingebre@xmission.xmission.com (David Ingebretsen) wrote:
- : >I don't know... I just don't know what is or isn't a reasonable
- : >expectation anymore. Certainly it is a bit premature to be holding a
- : >return of the Amiga party....
- : >
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- : Well, in my experience with computers, *reasonable* has never really played
- : much of a factor. IBM compatable PC's are by far the largest block of
- : computers on desktops in the world and the technology behind them is old and
- : kludgy. I've never owned anything but a PC, but I've used almost any system
- : you can imagine. The only thing I've ever found that I detest more than my 10
- : years of MS DOS experience is IBM's VMS. Yet, DOS/Windows thrives. I don't
- : get it. Certainly ain't *reasonable*.
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- Familiarity??? I think that is the only real reason I stick with x86
- systems... Because I know alot about them... And there is alot of market
- fir them and they fit a student budget... for a reasonable speedy system...
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- : The Amy was/is an excellent implementation of computer technology. But,
- : elegance alone will never sell computers. The new Amy, if ESCOM is going to
- : target anyone aside from old Amy users and DTV pros, will have to be cross
- : platform compatable, user friendly, fast, upgradable, fast, inexpensive,
- : networkable, fast, easy to invest money in, and it definitly must be very very
- : fast.
-
- Yeah... When the Indy and DEC Alpha start hitting that $2000 mark,
- everone will probally have one.... speed mongers...
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- : Imagine....PCI, PowerPC (or Alpha?), SCSI3, Mpeg on board, 8 megs of Chip Ram,
- : 8 channel 16 bit audio, etc, etc, etc....and teh Amiga OS. Oh, and if I ever
- : see that damned Amiga non-interlaced flicker again I'm going to barf.
-
- : Brian
-
- Really???
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- --G0w3
- --Life isn't like a friggin box of chocolates you retard!
- you know what's inside... it says it on the package!
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