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- From: Mark.Cordy@f323.n2613.z1.fidonet.org (Mark Cordy)
- Path: ceas.rochester.edu!rochgte!UUCP
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New slot box Amiga
- Message-ID: <826722958.AA07206@rochgte.fidonet.org>
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 23:18:01 -0500
- X-FTN-To: Fabian Jimenez
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- FJ> Noah I Rosenberg wrote:
- FJ> >
- FJ> >
- FJ> > About half the messages posted in this newsgroup, c.s.a.games,
- FJ> > g.s.a.multimedia, etc., are about 060 compatability problems with old
- FJ> > software. Yu see like about 50 new messages a week. Maybe 3 new
- messages
- FJ> > about problems with '030. Why wouldAT want to release a machine that
- was
- FJ> > just gonna have problems running everything, and call it official?
- FJ> >
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- FJ> Oh how about cuz the 030's performance is woeful in the face of other
- FJ> cpu's out there. Plus I would hope that those programs that break would
- FJ> be patched or perhaps upgraded? I tell you why buy a PowerAmiga when it
- FJ> comes out if you want to keep it running your old WB 1.3 stuff? I
- FJ> rather have a fast new machine with applications updated to run on it
- FJ> instead of the same old stuff which is quite dated now!
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- EXACTLY!
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- I have a 1200/030/50.
- It is MUCH faster than a stock 1200. But if I wanted to play something old,
- I'd get a 500 or 1000 for about $100 and be done with it.
- The price of progress is obsolesence.
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- Mark Cordy
- Team Amiga
- Temporally content with his 1200 (until the next great wave)
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