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- From: jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell Kesling)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:59:49 GMT
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- Markus Neumayer (markus@hiris.anorg.chemie.tu-muenchen.de) wrote:
- >dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
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- >>On 3 Mar 1996 07:11:14 GMT, jkesling@shell.portal.com (John Darrell
- >>Kesling) wrote:
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- >>>My 75 Mhz Pentium has about all it can do just to run netscape
- >>>without crashing.
-
- >>Tell us about your P75 that has so many problems. 4M of RAM? :)
-
- Nope, 16M of ram, the problem is called Windows '95.
-
- >IMHO the problem is _NOT_ the hardware (we run several Pentiums without
- >problems, using Linux) but the OS and software (if WinXX read: _CRAPWARE_).
- >To the part of netscape... This program is still quite unstable. It even
- >crashes on our workstations, usually with a memory failiure... rather
- >ridiculous on a HP apollo 715/100 with 64 MByte physical RAM and 370 MByte
- >swapspace.
-
- I agree, but I still prefer Motorola microprocessors to Intel.
-
- Remember, Microsoft gave the Amiga community AmigaBasic. Is it any
- wonder they can't do any better than Windows '95.
-
- >BTW. ever tried to print a structured drawing with Corel Draw to a file
- >and then printing it?? So much on the "superiour" software...
-
- The only reason we even have the Pentium is because of the availability
- of applications. Quality of the applications is an altogether different
- story. There is certainly a very high percentage of "_CRAPWARE_" out
- there for the Windows environment.
-
- Given similar applications I can be many times more productive on the
- Amiga than in a Windows '95 environment. And that's with much less
- horsepower and hardware on the Amiga.
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