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- From: jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <jsheehyDpt9K9.7KF@netcom.com>
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- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <0099FBB4.0D960DE1@netins.net> <315879bb.17389629@news.onramp.net> <4kba6r$1na@news.uni-c.dk>
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:21:45 GMT
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- In article <4kba6r$1na@news.uni-c.dk>,
- Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk> wrote:
- >
- >Imagine how an Amiga user feels when Window gives you "General application
- >fault" (or something like that) from Word, Wordperfect or Turbo Pascal.
-
- That's right. If the system gets thrashed, they have to reset the system
- manually. On the Amiga, you get a fireworks display on the screen just
- before it reboots itself.
-
- With Win95, errant apps are generally closed down with all system
- resources reclaimed.
-
- >Add
- >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).
-
- As far as I know, you can only type into one program at a time, on any
- system. If you're talking about having multiple apps open, this has been
- possible in 16 bit Windows for quite a while, and Win95 and NT
- pre-emptively multitask 32 bit apps.
-
- >And then
- >there is the thing about formatting disks...
-
- What thing? I'm formatting a floppy right now as I type this, and it's
- very hard to tell, other than barely hearing the step motor in the
- drive. Well what do you know? The drive stopped and I felt no surge in
- performance!
-
- BTW, where can you buy floppies that aren't already formatted? How often
- do you format floppies?
-
- >I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
-
- I don't have any such constraints on my PC. Don't know what you're
- talking about.
-
- John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
-
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