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- From: bayleyp@slip.net (bayleyp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 20:54:51 -0700
- Organization: me
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- In article <4d99qt$1t8@murphy.servtech.com>, nyle@cyber1.servtech.com
- (nyle landas) wrote:
-
- > Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
- > : I'm behind Apple, Amiga Technologies, and Be in that they are three
- > : companies that have a chance of giving up options in the future. Either
- > : one of them dying is a bad thing. I don't care HOW good Microsoft gets in
- > : the future, I want a *choice* when I buy a computer.
- >
- > (SARCASM MODE ON)
- >
- > Oh, but you do have a choice you can buy a DELL, Packard Bell, Compaq, IBM,
- > etc., etc. look at all those different computers. And you can run OS/2 or
- > UNIX if you don't like Windows.
- >
- > (SARCASM MODE OFF)
- >
- > Or at least that's what they'd like you to believe. Down iwth the consumer
- > grade commodity PC. Up with CHRP!!!!!!
- >
- Here here! btw, CHRP is now called PPCP (don't ask why) so we should
- keep it straight. Is PowerAmiga going to be able to run on PPCP? I thought
- they were making their own platform. I hope they choose to use PPCP with a
- few add on chips so that we will be able to run Solaris, MacOS, etc.
-
-
- psst, don't tell anyone....I use an 8500/132
-