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- From: bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: My Dream Machine:
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 10:32:57 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia
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- Frenk Janse (qwerty@hvision.nl) wrote:
- : Bernie Meyer wrote:
- :
- : bla bla
-
- : > For $3000 (I alocated $1000 for the monitor), you could have bought
- : > a Pentium 166 with an Adaptec 2940UW wide SCSI controller, an ST32550W
- : > 2G harddrive, 16M of RAM and a Matrox Millenium with 4MB, plus whatever
- : > soundcard you deem approriate.
- :
- : You forgot one, Bernie, for that $3000 you also get FREE, a totaly useless
- : OS, which can't multitask, needs 1.6 Mb just to drive a mouse, fucks up
- : simple things like adding a card and is outdated in 3-4 months by another
- : lame clone, from which COMPATIBILITY is an alien word.....
-
- No, you don't. You get FREE some junk on your harddisk, which you can
- remove about 10 minutes after switching the machine on for the first
- time. You the get FREE (from a friend or an ftp site) or for mere pocket
- change (which, given the falling RAM prices, you will have left over if
- you buy the above machine THIS week ;-), a very useful OS which uses
- three tasks just to keep its internals working, needs maybe 10k to drive
- a mouse, does have close to no problems adding a card, is outdated about
- every three days by a marginally better (and completely compatible)
- version if you want to stay at the bleeding edge (every 1.5 years otherwise).
-
- Now how does _that_ sound?
-
- Bernie
-
-