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- From: markus@hiris.anorg.chemie.tu-muenchen.de (Markus Neumayer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 09:31:00 GMT
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
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- dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
-
- >On 3 Mar 1996 07:11:14 GMT, jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell
- >Kesling) wrote:
-
- >>Don't forget multi-tasking. With my Amiga 2500 I can browse the web,
- >>FTP a file, unarc the previous file and play a game, all at the same
- >>time and all while I'm backing up my hard disk to tape.
- >>
- >>My 75 Mhz Pentium has about all it can do just to run netscape
- >>without crashing.
-
- >My Toshiba 400CDT portable is able to do the above flawlessly and with
- >superior products compared to what is on the Amiga...without crashing.
- >It has a Pentium 75 in it.
-
- >Tell us about your P75 that has so many problems. 4M of RAM? :)
-
- IMHO the problem is _NOT_ the hardware (we run several Pentiums without
- problems, using Linux) but the OS and software (if WinXX read: _CRAPWARE_).
- To the part of netscape... This program is still quite unstable. It even
- crashes on our workstations, usually with a memory failiure... rather
- ridiculous on a HP apollo 715/100 with 64 MByte physical RAM and 370 MByte
- swapspace.
-
- BTW. ever tried to print a structured drawing with Corel Draw to a file
- and then printing it?? So much on the "superiour" software...
-
- Best regards,
-
- Markus
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