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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 11:55:28 GMT
- Organization: Efficient Software Internet Service
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- George Lianeris, regarding your message ' Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?' -
-
- >> 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
-
- Centre for Disease Control ???
-
- Seems your infected with the most dangerous virus of all time: win95.
-
- ebola has not got a chance. the deadly win95 is not only capable of
- transmitting itself accros countries instantly, it is also impervious to
- most biological and chemical agents, as it has spread so far so fast. It is
- also a symbiotic-virus, that is reliant for it's survival on a fungus that
- breaks down progress, now commonly termed 'Microsoft', due to it's porus
- nature.
-
- Transmissiable by most forms of EM radiation, it can be commonly found
- infesting most computer systems that have not evolved resistance to it.
- these archae-computers are not reliant on it, having lost the ability to
- find sustenance through any other enviroment. The virus has a 90% infection
- rate, and a 100% fatality. Incubation is anywhere from a few weeks to a few
- months. Symptoms include vomiting, lack of computing resources, cronic
- upgraditis, and a general lack of mental facility. An infected computer
- will likly become unstable, and eventually go into a vegatative state.
-
- Recorded cases are in the hundreds of millions. Between it and TB, we are
- on the brink of destruction :-)
-
- >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
-
- I keep hearing this sort of thing. There are some that disagree. But, I
- think a number of these people do not know the joys of a real OS. Even some
- of the people who have used an amiga do not know - they just did not get
- there heads around it's significance.
-
- If the amiga does die, in 100 years time they will look back in wonder, and
- say 'if only this machine had succeeded - we would have been living in the
- stars by now', just as has been said about the greeks, romans, and
- egyptians...
-
- Or something :-)
-
- Can you see us flying the Enterprise with Windows 2400ad ??? :-)
-
- >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
-
- Have a friend with a mac. He is almays mentioning how he gives Netscape 8
- _megs_ of ram, and it _still_ runs out of ram!
-
- We are all fast becoming victims of ill-informed fast-buck decisions of 10
- and 15 years ago. Will people ever learn ?
-
- >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
-
- I dislike the pc myself, but will admit that a real fast one, running a
- decent OS (if there is such a beast for the pc), can be a usable setup.
- What you loose in elegance, you gain in cheap hardware and speed. Even so,
- it is far to much like putting a jet-engine in a Model T... At the end of
- the day, the pc is here still not because it is modern or good, but because
- it is cheap and well supported.
-
- Even Intel can make a decent cpu if it doesn't have to be compatible with
- the pc...
-
- >what you're doingm you might actually getone to work. But I prefer the
- >Amiga's ease of use and PNP.
-
- Same here. But it is fast becoming obvious that no one company is able to
- produce the amiga and market/support it as it needs to be. i have been
- advocating the porting of amigados to as many types of hardware as
- possible, including CHRP and the lowly PC (for the people like me who can't
- afford expensive hardware). better still, make it hardware independant,
- with a hardware abstraction module. Amoungst other things.
-
- > 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
-
- great, in't it ? had a friend who had that...
-
- >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.
-
- And the amiga should/could have had that too. But we had idiots running
- commodore, who could not decide which way was up, let alone a good game
- plan for the amiga. And now we have this latest fun and games from escom...
- We may be FORCED to go elsewhere. If so, i think it'll be a cheap PC, and
- then a BeBox.....
-
- ...... Brendan
-
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- "For it is the doom of Man that he forgets..."
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