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- From: ttammi@spider.compart.fi (Tiitus Tamminen)
- 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?
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 00:00:13 -0500
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- "Shane R. Monroe" <darkuni@nwinternet.com> wrote:
-
- ->PROS: The best damn OS every created (3.1).
-
- Don't kid yourself. Where's the memory protection or the multiuser
- support? FFS pales in comparison to e.g. NTFS. I personally find e.g.
- HPUX/VUE and WindowsNT 3.51 much more powerful OSes.
-
- ->The ONLY machine that still truly multitasks for under $10K.
-
- Nope, sorry, not true. A 386sx machine truly multitasks with e.g.
- Linux or any other Unix clone, for much under $10k.
-
- ->see what I mean). The absolute BEST shareware market for any system.
- ->You can own an Amiga and never buy commercial software and STILL have a
- ->great system.
-
- True for PC as well. I don't see Linux users buying many commercial
- applications, yet they have great systems. And both Windows and
- Warp have a great shareware market as well.
-
- What you probably meant to say was that Amiga doesn't have much of a
- commercial market to talk about. ;-)
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