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  2. From: ttammi@spider.compart.fi (Tiitus Tamminen)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
  4. Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
  5. Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:54:30 -0500
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  17. M Papachristos <se3mp@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
  18.  
  19. ->a game on the Spectrum emulator, ALL AT THE SAME TIME?  Or, the PeeCee
  20. ->user's nightmare: doing something else while an application is printing!
  21.  
  22. If you had ever used PCs, you'd know even a lowly 386sx machine with
  23. Win 3.11 can do background printing quite well (not to mention PCs
  24. with Win95, WinNT, Warp, Linux etc.). Maybe you should check the
  25. printer options.
  26.  
  27. As for your other examples, yes, I can e.g. play Doom95 quite well as
  28. Win95 is running other applications in the background. Try that with
  29. your Amiga. ;-)
  30.  
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