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- From: kbull@garlic.com (Greg Thomson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 08:20:56 GMT
- Organization: South_Valley_Internet
- Message-ID: <988.6592T1433T483@garlic.com>
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- > Although networking is a must for business, for the home,
- >it is just coolness points. It is true that 95 is good enough (to replace
- >3.11), and that NT is good (for those with $3000 and who do not want to run
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- I can get Windows NT for $100 at the San Jose State University Book
- store. Student discount.
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- Many of the
- >parts you state above are made in China and other Asian countries by hundreds
- >if not thousands of companies. A motherboard for $170? A good Pentium
- >name-brand motherboard made in the US can cost up to $500.
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- Intel Zappa board $200
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- >A generic minitower case?
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- Who cares. It works. Its just a case and a powersuply.
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- >Which name brand computer manufacturer you know uses a
- >generic case? 6X Cdrom -- I'd bet it is not a name brand either.
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- Acer CD Rom 6x $148, Mitsumi 6x CD Rom $168.
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- What needs to be done is an Amiga emulator for the PC's. Easy to say,
- and probably not that hard to make. AGA is not that complicated
- from what I heard.
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- KBull
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