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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 96 01:44:43 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4c4m@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 04 Feb 96 J. Poag wrote to All:
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- JP> Gilles Boring announces that the new A1300 rumored to be launched this
- JP> March contains a screaming fast, state of the art '030 stuck in an Amiga
- JP> 1200 case.
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- Which still is two to three times faster than what past and current
- A1200 users have to do with, which in its turn is two to four times
- faster than A500 performance.
-
- Remember this is a Low-End Machine, not a Sparcstation beater!
-
- The usability of a computer depends not on its comparison to other
- CPU's, but on what can be done with it. And even an '020 is plenty
- for some simple wordprocessing, some Netting and some games, which is
- what most people (according to multiple user inquiries) use a computer
- for.
-
- JP> Its 1996, and Amiga Technologies, GmbH is the only computer
- JP> manufacturer left on the entire f@*&$!! planet which still insists
- JP> on building computers that look like Commodore 64's..
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- The same computer that outsold every other one on the planet with
- more than ten million units sold. Good example.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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