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- From: sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy ami
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 15:10:11 +0000
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- On Thu 28-Mar-1996 22:47 tommy hwang wrote:
-
- th> > ->People are still using almost 10year old Amigas... how many people are
- th> > ->still using an EGA 286?
- th> > ->It's good to be ABLE to expand, but you shouldn't HAVE to.
- th> >
- th> > You don't have to, if you keep using the same programs all the time.
- th> > That's probably why Amiga owners are not upgrading that much. ;^)
-
- th> Actually.... People are still using 4 year old Amigas now, not
- th> quite that 10 year old. If my guess is correct, the AGA is the
- th> standard now.
-
- My BBS machine is 8 years old, up and running 24h a day. And I still have an
- '87 A1000, thogh that's for nostalgia, not for work :)
- I don't think AGA is anything like a standard, but it's not the fault of the
- programmer if a program requires things ECS just can't do. People have to face
- it, for some things these old machines are outdated and without a major
- upgrade new software will not work. You can multitask fine on a 512K 68000
- machine, but if you want do to image processing there's no way around a more
- powerful computer. Saying you shouldn't have to upgrade is like saying you
- shouldn't need any training to run a Marathon. Well, you may try. But you will
- fail because your body doesn't meet the requirements.
-
- ttyl!
- Matthias
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