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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- 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?
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 02:07:42 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- On 6 Apr 1996 17:10:17 GMT, nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo) wrote:
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- >In article <315a0646.3201934@news.onramp.net>, David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- >
- >>>You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs
- >>>directory, and you are done.
- >
- >>Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- >>card working? I don't think so.
- >
- >Amazing, isn't it? Fact is that Autoconfig existed from start and it
- >actually *works*! I can see why the concept may be a little hard for
- >a Wintel user to grasp. PNP is yet another kludgy Windows add on
- >which works...sometimes, kinda like everything else in Windows.
- >Point is, you better have a huge knowledge of hardware and software
- >oddities when you set up or expand a Wintel box.
-
- Sigh. On an Amiga, you cannot simply "copy a device driver to devs"
- and have it all work. If you think you can, you REALLY need to
- rethink things - there's a LOT more to it than that. Win95 is far
- easier to set up with another graphics card.
-
- >Most of what you know about Amigas you learned from your pathetic
- >errors in c.s.a.advocacy, not from experience. You obviously still
- >believe that 640x400 is the max NI resolution on a stock Amiga, and
- >you still think that because *you* don't want to use a 72Hz 800x600
- >interlaced display then no one else can be happy with it.
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- If you don't mind it being painfully slow 'even' on AGA Amigas, more
- power to you.
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