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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- 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?
- Message-ID: <1996Mar23.102016.53522@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 23 Mar 96 10:20:16 -0600
- References: <3134A895.193E@sound.net> <DnJt9y.9A9@news.tcd.ie> <0099FBB0.EDB774F4@netins.net>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <0099FBB0.EDB774F4@netins.net>, tempest@netins.net writes:
- > In article <2F4Tx0kkAQvY088yn@spider.compart.fi>, ttammi@spider.compart.fi (Tiitus Tamminen) writes:
- >>M Papachristos <se3mp@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
- >>
- >>->a game on the Spectrum emulator, ALL AT THE SAME TIME? Or, the PeeCee
- >>->user's nightmare: doing something else while an application is printing!
- >>
- >>If you had ever used PCs, you'd know even a lowly 386sx machine with
- >>Win 3.11 can do background printing quite well (not to mention PCs
- >>with Win95, WinNT, Warp, Linux etc.). Maybe you should check the
- >>printer options.
- >>
- >>As for your other examples, yes, I can e.g. play Doom95 quite well as
- >>Win95 is running other applications in the background. Try that with
- >>your Amiga. ;-)
- >>
- >
- > Done that, been there... Amiga runs 10000x nicer than any ibm when it comes
- > to mulitasking. Windows 95 on an ibm sucks compared to an Amiga of 10 years
- > ago even. I can play doom games on my Amiga in the background of my multi
- > line bbs system and other things running in background.. I can do this with
- > a much slower cpu than you can on an ibm... Ibm's and intel's do NOT compare,
- > they suck.
-
- Sheesh...An emotional Amiga nut.. When will the Amiga get updated hardware at
- lower prices? When will there be real apps such as PowerPoint..If the Amiga
- can't run PowerPoint than it's useless to me..Thats why I dumped it..
-
- >
- > Don't you wonder why I can do MORE than you can with LESS CPU and Memory?
- >
- > This may hurt to know but it is very true. IBM's with their bloated/garbage
- > os's suck. You would think that after all this time, around 10 years, that
- > microsoft could come up with something better than windows and windows 95.
- > These os's (or msdos programs) are mostly to blame for ibm's being a peice of
- > shit like they have always been and still are.
-
- So the OS is bigger than Amiga OS...Does more....costs less....Why does the
- Amiga cost soo much? The Amiga has a bloated price....$2800 for an 040
- box..Phulease....
- >
- > - A 386 running windows can print in background? Wow.. even if it could
- > be done, it is not something to brag about. I remember an idiot ibm user
- > testing betas of windows 95 and saw that he could almost do tape backup in
- > the background, he started breaking down with excitement (almost crying).
- > He was so happy that he could almost do backups and still do soemthing else
- > with his junk ibm. This is how ibm's have been for most people in the world,
- > and still is for most people in the world.. I felt sorry for this guy.. If
- > only he had an Amiga to begin with he would of always of known that he
- > could multitask. Ibm's are a bit better these days but they still suck.
-
- So you call IBM users idiots? So you must be an idiot if you advocate to spend
- $2800 for a A4000t...
-
- >
- >
- >>--
- >>TLT ---> WWW homepage at http://spider.compart.fi/~ttammi/ <---
-
-
- GREETINGS..
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