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- From: pleung@cs.buffalo.edu (Patrick Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There IS an Amiga, i just don't use it :)
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 14:58:27 GMT
- Organization: University at Buffalo
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- VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA (l42786@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
- : So i bought a 100Mhz Pentium with 16Mb of RAM, 1GB hard disk 4x CD-ROM,
- : S3 graphics with 2Mb VRAM, SoundBlaster, Yamaha MX50 board, 17" monitor,
- : HP 850C printer (tiresome..) (Commodore were dead at the time)
-
- ;-)) Commodore may be dead, but there are still a lot of people using
- their old C64/128. Look at comp.sys.cbm, and you'll know what I mean. I
- enthusiasm over Commodore computers has not died off yet.
-
- : Then i used MS-DOS...
- : What's this ??? EMS? XMS? UMB? 640K base RAM aaaaarrrggggghhhhh!!!!
-
- hahahaha...
-
- : Then i got Windoze 95... Great tough Win 3.11 software goes down most
- : often... I run one prog once which gave me : VMM32 stuck Win95 blocked
- : and i hard to hard reset. I tought "Great Win95 and all this and the
- : computer blocks it' s worse than my A2000". Then i got Win95 to crash
- : while using Paint it even crashes with MS Win95 software!!!!!
- : Great!!!!!!!!!
-
- Get used to it. There's also the famous "General Protection Fault" in
- Windows.
- It crashes the computer so often, I am beginning to think it is a "built in
- feature" of Windows.
-
- : I admit PC' s are crap, but i like my nonetelless... :)
-
- Well... it's kind of hard not to like anything which you spent a lot of
- money on. You'll have to just learn to live and struggle with your
- problems on your PeeCee as someone else on the net said.
-
- : My teachers ATE PC's (some) but we use them A LOT...
-
- Wow... You order PeeCees at McDonalds? ;-))
- Someone else was talking about getting A1200 Surfers at McDonalds for
- $799. How much do those PeeCees cost?
-
- : PC' s are like VHS... Crap but standard...
- : I still use my A2000 in video work and i am thinking of buiyng a new one
- : - my A2000 is OLD!!
-
- That's a good idea.
-
-
- Patrick Leung | "It's not how little you pay.
- pleung@acsu.buffalo.edu | It's how much you get."
- http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~pleung | -- Commodore --
-