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- From: c948374@lillep.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann Lambertsen)
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 21:58:03 GMT
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- On Tue, 09 Apr 1996 03:21:14 GMT David Corn (dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com) wrote:
- > 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.
-
- Yeah, they may even have changed the error message ;-)
-
- > >I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
-
- > Sure - you just never had any software to -do- anything. :)
-
- I've done a lot of raytracing (DKBtrace) while writing reports, essays
- and stuff (WordWorth) or compiling/writing C programmes (DICE and GNU C).
- Not only did it work reliably, it didn't bog down the system either.
- And it felt comfortable. No hard disk swapping itself to death ;-)
-
- > >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.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Depends on you configuration and what you intend to do on
- it. Tell me what is non-standard about it.
-
- > Sure, as an expensive add-on.
-
- Don't think so. Amiga gfx cards don't go that low, AFAIK.
-
- 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.
-
- --
- Regards,
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