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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- 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: 13 Apr 1996 05:38:35 GMT
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- David Corn, regarding your message ' Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?' -
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- >>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.
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- I have watched you for some time, corn. I have seen much unmittigated CRAP
- come from you time and again. I have even seen the odd truth slip in.
-
- All the while I have largly ignored you as yet another know-nothing pc/mac
- dweeb. I find it sad to be prooven correct yet again.
-
-
- Yes, david, you can bloody well so "'copy a device driver into devs' and
- have it all work". I have done it many a time. Serial drivers; parallel
- drivers; network drivers; and drivers for software systems you poor little
- pc dweebs have to jump through hoopes to use. Same with filesystems. Just
- drop them in, format your disk (if even that), and away you go. Oh - you
- might have to tell them the partition size, etc. Might.
-
- Same with graphics drivers. If i had wanted to, i could have simply copied
- the driver into devs:monitors, and the libraries into libs:. But _I_ didn't
- have to even do that. No, i simply ran the supplied Installer script, and
- it's LISP-based interpreter did all the work, and knew about things like
- versions, compression, etc. Simple.
-
- Then i just used it. A while later, i fiddled with the graphics modes
- available - made some more. My amiga can switch modes on the fly - no
- re-boot needed. I don't know about your mac or PC...
-
-
- Yeah, so piss off corn. Your full of crap. And why is it that you cannot
- conatian your crap to .advocacy _ONLY_ ???!
-
- >>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.
-
- >If you don't mind it being painfully slow 'even' on AGA Amigas, more
- >power to you.
-
- Dickhead.
-
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