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- From: nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk (Neil Brendan Clark)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Acorn RiscPC --- a thought?
- Date: 5 Feb 1996 20:57:33 -0000
- Organization: University of Strathclyde
- Message-ID: <4f5qvt$1hm@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>
- References: <1996Feb5.164323.465@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk>
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- Neil <carson@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk> wrote:
- <...Lots of good things about RISC PCs...>
-
- Yes, they are nice machines. However, the last time I looked they suffered
- from the Windows curse of cooperative multitasking - i.e. they are single
- tasking machines ;-)
-
- There is *no way* in the world I would even consider buying a machine reduced
- to a bitty box by an outmoded OS. OK, so you can get NetBSD for it now - big
- deal. You can get NetBSD for clones, and get a faster machine for a similar
- price.
-
- --
- "We got drunk, we got stoned, we got - well *one* of us got laid, and you
- nearly did - we had a fight, which we *won* dammit, and then we ran away...
- holy shit; what more do you want?" - The Player Of Games, I.M.Banks
- Neil Clark, Transparent Telepresence Group,http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk
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