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  1. Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
  2. Path: newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!uchinews!not-for-mail
  3. From: sjchmura@midway.uchicago.edu (steven joseph chmura)
  4. Subject: Re: There is *NO*  Amiga....STOP IT NOW
  5. X-Nntp-Posting-Host: woodlawn.uchicago.edu
  6. Message-ID: <Dnty34.zI@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator)
  8. Organization: The University of Chicago
  9. References: <4gi6o1$jf2@shum.cc.huji.ac.il> <4475.6630T1337T407@es.co.nz> <4h5mn5$8f9@news.microsoft.com> <9603011913.AA005m0@hectortd.demon.co.uk>
  10. Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 05:04:15 GMT
  11.  
  12. In article <9603011913.AA005m0@hectortd.demon.co.uk>,
  13. Paul Copsey  <paul@hectortd.demon.co.uk> wrote:
  14. >Dave Plummer (davepl@microsoft.com) wrote:
  15. >> In article <4475.6630T1337T407@es.co.nz>, bthompx@es.co.nz says...
  16. >> >Perhaps amigaos could be made hardware independant ? Like, but better than,
  17. >> >windoze NT ? So you could choose any hardware you like (not just ppc/68k) -
  18. >
  19. >> Better than NT in what particular respect (and why is it that Amiga users
  20. >> constantly misspell Windows, whereas if I were misspell AmigaDOS, that
  21. >> would somehow be offensive?).. NT has a system-specific HAL with minimal
  22. >
  23. >It's a bit of a joke really, sort of windozzzzzzz, like you've fell
  24. >asleep waiting for the screen to redraw ;-)
  25. >
  26.  
  27. Really?  Like AGA 640x480 8bit Non-interlaced is fast?  Have you seen
  28. a good 64bit card on WIn95 in 24bit color?
  29.  
  30. Amiga ruelz and all of that but hey, AGA sucked big time.
  31.  
  32. -- 
  33. ________________________________________________________________________________Steven Chmura                                               MuDPhud4
  34. TEAM APACHE: To hell with jets
  35.