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- From: fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 20 Mar 1996 03:45:21 GMT
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- Philip Chung (ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
-
- : 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.
-
- Well, the chipset was designed for games. As you said, the OS was added,
- which IMHO made it to what Amiga is.
- Today, chipset blitter beeing factors slower than S3 blitters,
- the Amiga concept, the OS, the use/controll of hardware, is
- what Amiga makes the most interesting concept for todays
- image of multimedia.
-
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- : __/\_\__ Philip Chung
- : /\_\/_/\_\ E-Mail: ee95pyc@brunel.ac.uk
- : \/_/\_\/_/ Brunel, the University of West London
- : \/_/ Uxbridge, UK
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