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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Fri, 08 Mar 96 23:22:06 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: Q: 680EC30? What does it mean?
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4k6q@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 06 Mar 96 Jeff Grimmett wrote to All:
-
- JG> Seriously: get off the clonehead mentality for a moment. A 030/40Mhz
- JG> is more than adequate for the VAST majority of any computing task I
- can
- JG> think of at the moment, as long as it's done ON an Amiga. True, 40 MHz
- JG> would make it hard to even BOOT windows, but that's the advantage of a
- JG> superior OS. If I want Windows, I'll go buy a clone.
-
- JG> Do me a favor: don't make me and other people pay for the ego trips of
- JG> a few people who equate megahertz to self-image. The base system at
- 40
- JG> MHz is just fine for quite a lot of people, and those people that NEED
- JG> more power (never said they didn't exist) can PAY for it and keep the
- JG> rest of us out of it.
-
- Hear hear. Heck, even a 68020 was used in workstations not even that
- many moons ago, and if it was good enough for typing and retrieving
- some data then (which is what most ordinary users use a computer for)
- then it should be good enough nowadays to get the very same job done.
- I for one don't actually need a PowerPC or Repenium to type in this
- message (and play some music in the background), only "wannahaves" do.
-
- The usability of a computer system depends not on its comparison to
- other systems.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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