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- From: Lee@burst.demon.co.uk (Lee Huggett)
- 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 14:29:02 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?
-
- What has that got to do with pirating?
-
- anyone can copy disks and Roms
-
- > 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...
-
- Well, it taks a bit longer on the copying...
-
- your point is?
-
- >>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.
-
- A P120 doesn't give twice the performance, I have to say it is quicker, but
- clock the '060 upto 120Mhz then compare them
-
-
- >>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. :)
-
- okay I'll go and run Shapeshifter and PCTask at the same time shall I?
-
- Lets play doom on two machines at the same time
-
- Lee
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