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- From: wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- 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: 10 Apr 1996 14:51:52 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Sender: wahlmann@banach (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
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- In article <316874cd.84247771@news.onramp.net>, dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- |> On 6 Apr 1996 17:10:17 GMT, nilo@login.dknet.dk (Nicolai Thilo) wrote:
- |>
- |> >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.
-
- Just guessing again, David?
-
- Nicolai's right. If the setup is too complicated for Joe User, an installer script is
- included.
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- Can't see what's better with Win95 PnP, for that has been reported as faulty
- under certain conditions.
-
- Juergen.
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