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- From: Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The Oracle
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 00:25:07 GMT
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- Roland Bengtsson (roland.bengtsson@mbox3.swipnet.se) wrote:
- : I sent this to the Oracle (oracle@cs.indiana.edu):
- :
- : > Do you think Amiga has better multitasking than an ordinary PC?
- :
- : And in response, thus spake the Oracle:
- :
- : } Hell no! The Amiga is a dead computer with no software support, and it
- : } couldn't multitask itself out of a wet paper bag without becoming unbearably
- : } slow!
- : }
- : } Now on my Pentium running Windows, I can print something at the same time
- : } as, say, I'm running QModem. Try that with your Amiga!
- : }
- : } In fact, I'm at this very moment printing a list of cool web sites with
- : } erotic gifs. 256 colors, try that with your amiga.
- : }
- : } Ah, finished. Time to print something else. CTL-ALT-DELETE to change
- : } tasks. Seeya.
- :
- : I expected some rubbish in the answer, and it is in some way. But I thought it
- : was some kind of program that generates the answer.
- :
-
- No, AFAIR the oracle recieves the question then mails it to someone to
- answer, the most witty answers are published in the best or oracle.
-
- If you send mail to oracle with Help, I think in the subject line it will
- send you information about how it operates. Good eh?
-
- This answer is brill though isn't it.
-
- CTRL-ALT-DELETE to switch tasks, or the RESET switch, or the POWER switch.
-
- ROTFL...Hee He Hee...
-
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- | Martin | Amiga 1200 030 6MB 120MB HD CD-ROM | mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk |
- | Leslie | AT M1438S Supra V32bis | |
- | Baker | Motorola Motivated... Amiga CD32 | Scunthorpe |
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