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- From: c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen)
- 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: 8 Apr 1996 15:42:07 GMT
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- On 31 Mar 96 00:16:43 +0500 Gene Heskett (gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com) wrote:
-
- > TT> "Shane R. Monroe" <darkuni@nwinternet.com> wrote:
-
- > TT> ->PROS: The best damn OS every created (3.1).
-
- > TT> Don't kid yourself. Where's the memory protection or the multiuser
- > TT> support? FFS pales in comparison to e.g. NTFS. I personally find e.g.
- > TT> HPUX/VUE and WindowsNT 3.51 much more powerful OSes.
- ^^^^
- HPSUX
-
- > OS9 BTW, does have the protected, segmented memory amigados lacks.
- > Out of the 2 megs in mine, only 64k is available to the cpu at any
- > one time. That alone makes it about 10x as bulletproof from errant
- > programs as amigados will ever be without that re-write everybody
- > keeps talking about so wishfully. I recently heard of one thats
- > running a BBS in chicago which has *not* been rebooted in almost 3
- > years. That folks, is the UNIX style of dependability.
-
- I suppose it is also "the UNIX style of dependability" when I
- crash a HP (S)Ux machine (yes, the whole machine) 1 out of 3 times
- I start Netscape on it. *UNIX* has taught me to save my files often,
- not my Amiga.
-
- Yes, I know HP UX sucks badly, but still...
-
- > TT> ->see what I mean). The absolute BEST shareware market for any system.
- > TT> ->You can own an Amiga and never buy commercial software and STILL have a
- > TT> ->great system.
-
- > TT> True for PC as well. I don't see Linux users buying many commercial
- > TT> applications, yet they have great systems. And both Windows and
- > TT> Warp have a great shareware market as well.
-
- Thanks to Aminet (and previously Fred Fish), it doesn't come close to
- that of the Amiga, though.
-
- --
- Regards,
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