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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:26:38 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
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- Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
- >
- >Because PC's have a crap floppy disk architecture.
-
- Well, I can do floppy disk activities as well as other stuff "simultaneously"
- on my work PC; of course, I'm running FreeBSD, a free UNIX clone, on it. The
- problem with the PC is *not* the architecture, which is getting quite good
- with PCI and so on, rather it is the poor OS implementations courtesy of
- Mr. Gates that are holding it back.
-
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