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- From: cpalmer@parsifal.nando.net (Cory Palmer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 21 Jan 1996 12:49:02 GMT
- Organization: Not an Organization
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- I ravly get into the Amiga vs peecee flame but this is one of those times.
-
-
- In article <988.6592T1433T483@garlic.com> kbull@garlic.com (Greg Thomson) writes:
- >
- > > Although networking is a must for business, for the home,
- > >it is just coolness points. It is true that 95 is good enough (to replace
- > >3.11), and that NT is good (for those with $3000 and who do not want to run
- >
- >
- > I can get Windows NT for $100 at the San Jose State University Book
- > store. Student discount.
- >
- >
- >
- > Many of the
- > >parts you state above are made in China and other Asian countries by hundreds
- > >if not thousands of companies. A motherboard for $170? A good Pentium
- > >name-brand motherboard made in the US can cost up to $500.
- >
- > Intel Zappa board $200
- >
- >
- > >A generic minitower case?
- >
- > Who cares. It works. Its just a case and a powersuply.
- >
- > >Which name brand computer manufacturer you know uses a
- > >generic case? 6X Cdrom -- I'd bet it is not a name brand either.
- >
- > Acer CD Rom 6x $148, Mitsumi 6x CD Rom $168.
- >
-
- All of the above pricing is proably true, but you get what you pay for. You
- buy cheap you get cheap. Most of the pc people and Amiga people that go over
- to the pc use this pricing issue to justify the pc purchase. Most of the
- pc users buy a pc and a few software packages and that is it. They never get
- anything else. I here the same crap every day from pc people "why would you
- ever need that" or "why would you ever what to do that" or "why would you ...".
- It's all the same thing crap, and don't get me started about the irq thing.
- My system is listed below and pc-ers ask what do you need a zip drive for or
- a 7 cd changer or bla bla bla. The pc people will never understand the Amiga
- becuase billy no one will ever need more than 640k gates spends hundreds of
- millions of dollars pounding misleading ad's about the pc and windoze. Don't
- forget these 2 things:
- 1: The same people who ask why do you what bla bla bla can't program there
- vcr.
-
- 2:Most (very high %) say what this guy said below "well thats what I have heard".
- They have never seen an Amiga or used one let alone wrote code for one.
-
- >
- > What needs to be done is an Amiga emulator for the PC's. Easy to say,
- > and probably not that hard to make. AGA is not that complicated
- > from what I heard.
- SEE ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ don't know crap about the Amiga, but thinks he knows all..
- >
- >
- > KBull
-
- --
-
- AND before someone flames about my spelling, I'm a computer nerd not
- an english major.
-
-
-
- Cory Palmer
- cpalmer@nando.net
-
-
- /-------------------------------------------------------\
- | Amiga 4000/040 20 meg ram, 1.26 gig hd, |
- | 2x cd-rom, Nec 7cd changer, Way to many CD's, |
- | Epson 600 dpi flatbed scanner, Epson stylus color |
- | printer, 44 meg syquet, Zip drive, VLab Y/C, |
- | Multiface III, GVP A4008 w/Guru Rom, Supra 28.8 |
- | fax/modem. |
- | Kickstart 3.0, System 7.5, dos 6.2, windoze 3.11 |
- \-- ----------------------------------------------------/
- Only Amiga makes it possible.
-
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- When I die I want to go in my sleep like my Grandfather...
- ..not screaming like the rest of the passengers in his car.
- -----------------------------------------------------------
-
- remember with a pc compatibility is not further than you chaek book!!!
-