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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 96 02:22:49 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to b
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4nzr@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 24 Mar 96 David Corn wrote to All:
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- DC> support, and plenty of other stupid problems. Sorry, but with 486/100
- DC> processors costing next to nothing, and motherboard upgrades being dirt
- DC> cheap, the Amiga's memory-leanness have only held it back.
-
- This has to be the silliest statement I've heard you make, mr. Corn
- - and you've made plenty. You're basically saying that needing
- more memory (adding to the cost) is better. Go figure.
-
- DC> low end is a P75, and very soon it will be a P100. The Pentium makes
- DC> Win95 fly.
-
- ...Which just about says it all.
-
- DC> Not really. They've had autoconfig. The user still has to mess with
- DC> setting up the software on the Amiga.
-
- ...And not on a PC, minding yer basic IRQ's and illegible Asian
- manuals , I presume? Right...
-
- DC> The Amiga series of machines is so much more expensive than PCs that it
- DC> isn't even funny.
-
- Actually, you can buy a basic Amiga in Germany for prices you can't
- even buy a basic PC for. Why? Because PC manufacturers take their
- more affordable 386/486 models off the market.
- And oh, yes, in CPU power, it's slower, but in the OS, it's still
- faster.
-
- DC> Perhaps because Amiga technology really hasn't progressed
- for 3 years, DC> and so software technology really hasn't changed much
- in that time DC> either?
-
- Tell that to the developers of Shapeshifter, Linux or NetBSD - all
- running on the Amiga now.
-
- DC> Or perhaps because you are happy to ignore just how poorly AGA
- DC> fares next to more modern technology? Or perhaps the new things
- DC> offered in Win95 aren't understood by you?
-
- It's not a case of 'ignoring', mr. Corn. Most of us do keep up with
- what's happening in the PC world, some of us have a PC as well. And
- yet, most of us still prefer Amiga technology. Maybe there are reasons
- for that.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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