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- From: jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <jsheehyDoAE36.6AB@netcom.com>
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- References: <4hpc4j$kij@trog.dra.hmg.gb> <DnyKMH.F7r@cix.compulink.co.uk> <4i41iu$21o@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:11:30 GMT
- Sender: jsheehy@netcom9.netcom.com
-
- In article <4i41iu$21o@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>,
- 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.
-
- I am formatting a floppy as I am typing this under Win95, and every
- character is appearing on the screen the instant I type it, including the
- echo from my internet provider. If I didn't hear the floppy drive moving
- it's head, I wouldn't even know it's happening. The days of PCs not
- being able to do other things while formatting a floppy are history.
- Win95, OS/2, Unix and it's clones all multitask floppy operations.
-
- John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
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