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- From: Morgan <cs4dx@herts.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 13:19:43 +0100
- Organization: University of Hertfordshire
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- Just A little note about the amiga's architecture, that was designed in 1985!
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- Some people have said:
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- > >>>>You plug hardware in on an AMiga, copy the device driver to the devs
- > >>>>directory, and you are done.
- > >>
- > >>>Really? You're telling me that's what you did to get the graphics
- > >>>card working? I don't think so.
- >
- > Yeah? have you tried it David?
- >
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- The Amiga has a system called Autoconfig that allows devices to be recognised without
- a large amount of setting up to be done.
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- This is plug and play, ten years before the words were thought up.
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- Peter Morgan.
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