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- From: mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 20:03:51 GMT
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- Neil Brendan Clark (nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- Ah, but then is this really a "PC" (note the quotes before you
- flame!)? I think that what most people mean by a "PC" is an Intel
- machine running Windows (and not Windows NT). However, I still tend
- to look at Intel machines as having a "pieced-together" archicture
- that's based on the very old, original IBM PC AT design and has had
- numerous additions to try to keep it up to date.
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