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- From: Andy@lando.demon.co.uk (Andrew Oland)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 08 Apr 96 16:56:36 +0000
- Message-ID: <2203.6672T1016T1830@lando.demon.co.uk>
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- >>>>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.
-
- DC> Sigh. On an Amiga, you cannot simply "copy a device driver to devs"
- DC> and have it all work. If you think you can, you REALLY need to
- DC> rethink things - there's a LOT more to it than that. Win95 is far
- DC> easier to set up with another graphics card.
-
- Hmmm...so prey tell us David oh master of Amiga, why won't it work.
- You onviously know something that I and every other amiga user doesn't
- know. So please, enlighten us - then go away to a newsgroup that you
- belong in!!!
-
- So your saying that with Win '95 you don't have to play with any
- config's what-so-ever - I find this hard to believe judging by a
- friend of mines experience.
-
- >>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.
-
- DC> If you don't mind it being painfully slow 'even' on AGA Amigas, more
- DC> power to you.
-
- I wouldn't regard my computer as slow - the AGA chipset adds to the
- functionality of the Amiga. Makes it multitask better than the PeeCee
- ever could. Ever seen an Amiga running several progams
- simultaneously..and still being able to accomplish taks...like
- formatting a disk ;))
-
- Cya
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