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- From: Paul Copsey <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Followup-To: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 19:13:30 GMT
- Organization: E. Scrooge's Humbug Factory
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- Dave Plummer (davepl@microsoft.com) wrote:
- > In article <4475.6630T1337T407@es.co.nz>, bthompx@es.co.nz says...
- > >Perhaps amigaos could be made hardware independant ? Like, but better than,
- > >windoze NT ? So you could choose any hardware you like (not just ppc/68k) -
-
- > Better than NT in what particular respect (and why is it that Amiga users
- > constantly misspell Windows, whereas if I were misspell AmigaDOS, that
- > would somehow be offensive?).. NT has a system-specific HAL with minimal
-
- It's a bit of a joke really, sort of windozzzzzzz, like you've fell
- asleep waiting for the screen to redraw ;-)
-
- And the reason why it would be offensive for you to misspell AmigaDOS
- is mlainly because of the fact that a lot of sh*t gets thrown into
- here by pc users, and not so often in the opposite direction.
-
- > To be honest, what I'd rather have is an Amiga "card" that I could slap
-
- Wouldn't we all?
-
- > into a PC and run AmigaDOS in a window, with the sound, hard drives,
- > video, etc, virtualized to the host PC. I'm sure you can put together
- > the Amiga custom chipset and a 68040 for under $500.
-
- Tell that to the people making them.
-
- Paul
-
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