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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: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 03:21:40 GMT
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- On 8 Apr 1996 16:04:08 GMT, c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann
- Lambertsen) wrote:
-
- >> I didn't need to purchase Win95 seperately. You -definately- need to
- >> purchase both OSs if upgrading, unless you just pirate it. I'm sure
- >> no one here does that, so your point is absolutely wrong.
- >
- >You can easily pirate Winslows 95, but you can't easily pirate Amiga OS
- >because of the Kickstart ROM.
-
- One word - UAE. Next silly comment, Rask?
-
- Suffice to say it's a LOT easier to pirate one 512k ROM and 6 880k
- floppies vs what - 24 or so 1.44M floppies...
-
- >A Pentium 120 doesn't have twice the performance of an 060.
- >Get some facts and rerun your calculation. And try avoiding
- >division :)
-
- :) We'll agree to disagree on that one outside of a few specialized apps.
-
- >Just to show your ignorance, David: You can't get a new A3000 with 060
- >because the A3000 has been out of production for a long time and was
- >never produced with an 060 in it.
-
- No kidding, Rask. More brilliant observations. Now, go run UAE and
- get back to me. :)
-