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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- 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: 12 Mar 1996 09:29:10 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- Thomas Karlsen <sledge@algonet.se> completely circumvented the issue
- by writing:
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- >On 4 Mar 1996, Karl Thomas wrote:
-
- >> >800x600 pixel, 72 Hz, 256000 color (SUPER72 interlaced and HackAGA).
- >> >I do not need any grafic card for this. If I need more gfx power, I add
- >> >one and go for 1600x1280 pixels at true color. duh.
- >>
- >> Do you really want to compare an interlaced graphics mode to SVGA? HAM
- >> is so slow its basically unusable. Why is it that anything that the Amiga
- >> doesn't have that every modern platform has, the Amiga doesn't need? One
- >> minute Amiga users say "We don't need fast processors" and the next minute
- >> you're bragging about Vapor-PowerAmiga.
-
- >Hey .GIF jerk!
-
- How mature.
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- >Why do you keep going? Are you feeling ripped off after buying that PC
- >machine???
-
- Nope, because I bought a Mac.
-
- >We love the Amiga and will continue with it. And people who buy one will
- >obviously have one too. and if you wanna have that PC, fine..
-
- No I don't want to have a PC...well unless you count the dx/2-66 card
- inside my P-Mac.
-
- >But when you brag about your cool PC and how cheap it is. Then I must
- >tell you that the 2nd hand market on Amigas is very high. So if you
- >compare a PC that was bought 1992 (very likely to be a 386SX 16Mhz) and
- >an Amiga 3000 bought the same year you will find that your PC is worth
- >just about nothing while you can sell your A3000 for the price of a new
- >PC of today...
-
- That's only because a high-end Amiga in 1996 is the same thing as a
- high-end Amiga of 1992. Not exactly something to brag about in the
- computer industry.
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