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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 15:22:54 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Sender: wahlmann@banach (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
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- In article <3169d157.4615130@news.onramp.net>, dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
- |> On 8 Apr 1996 15:09:15 GMT, c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann
- |> Lambertsen) wrote:
- |>
- |> >Imagine how an Amiga user feels when Window gives you "General application
- |> >fault" (or something like that) from Word, Wordperfect or Turbo Pascal. Add
- |>
- |> Run Win95.
-
- Imaging how an Amiga user feels when the Win16 support of Win95 collapses and
- takes EVERY SINGLE 16bit app with it.
-
- Everytime I have to work with Windows PC's I feel crippled. Something like
- loosing my left arm.
-
- |> >that to the feeling of not being able to multitask these programmes (so you
- |> >can't write a programme and the documentation at the same time). And then
- |> >there is the thing about formatting disks...
- |>
- |> Run Win95.
-
- Just to see the HD light on for the remaining time of my work? No, thanks.
-
- |> >I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
- |>
- |> Sure - you just never had any software to -do- anything. :)
-
- This, speaking for myself, is simply not true.
-
- |> >So you still think the Amiga doesn't have SVGA? Won't surprice me at all.
- |>
- |> Not standard in a usable speed on a current machine, no. Sure, as an
- |> expensive add-on. On the most common Amiga sold, do most Amigas have
- |> this SVGA card? What's the common denominator that's written for in
- |> the Amiga commercial market? Please recall that I'm in the USA,
- |> where, for the most part, there IS no commercial Amiga market.
-
- Then you should take a look at Europe. Especially in Germany we got a very
- powerful commercial market for Amigas, as well as a good user base.
-
- I want AT to advertise heavily in the USA, though.
-
- Juergen.
-