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- From: ai905@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (George Lianeris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 15:46:33 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: ai905@freenet6.carleton.ca (George Lianeris)
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- Reply-To: ai905@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (George Lianeris)
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- NeuroMancer (bthompx@es.co.nz) writes:
- > David Corn, regarding your message ' Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?' -
- >
- >>>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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- That's right. The Amigamakes it all possible.
-
- I've co-oped at CDC for half a year. Just so that you know that
- it's not just my opinion, they think WIN95 is the most pathetic piece of
- software ever seen. It works on one machine, crashes on another, won't
- boot on the third one, kills hard drives...and PNP onWIN95 isn't wortha
- crap either. The Mac OS isn't thatbad. Just inefficient, really-takes up
- too much HD space and too much RAM, and it can't really multitask. But
- WIN95 is the scourge of the century. If you think that PNP or the
- stability on WIN95 is good, then you really DO need to use an Amiga
- sometime. I've used PCs, and I'm not saying they're bad. If you know
- what you're doingm you might actually getone to work. But I prefer the
- Amiga's ease of use and PNP.
-
- BTW, CDC is installing WIN95 onall their PCs. Why? One reason
- only. As many disadvantages as WIN95 has over other systems (such as
- killing the dataon your HD when it crashes-you have GOT to love the
- auto-validation on an Amiga) itdoes provide one single networking
- protocol, so the tech support group will have fewer complications to worry
- about when it comes to networking.
- --
- Lt. Cmdr. George Lianeris CSS Cathawk, Tactical/Security Officer
- Captain George Lianeris CSS DreamStar, Commanding Officer
-