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- From: Philip Chung <ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 11:21:54 +0000
- Organization: Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK
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- Ian Gledhill wrote:
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- > I thought they were mainly meant for video applications, not for games at all.
- > And the first A1000 was in 1985, '82.. the Amiga isn't QUITE as old as a
- > ZX Spectrum! :-)
-
- Well, the Amiga WAS originally designed to be a killer games console (by an
- company called Amiga - the console would be called Loraine). The multitasking
- OS, and adding a disk drive and keyboard was an afterthought after Commodore
- bought Amiga.
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