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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 96 00:05:15 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4mjc@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 17 Mar 96 David Corn wrote to All:
-
- >> MAc, Mac,. fuck off with your MAC. We don't want MACS and besides, most
- >> Amiga users can get a MAC for $0! Can you?!
-
- DC> An old, slow Mac that's dependant on having a very fast Amiga?
-
- Wrong. Shapeshifter runs Mac programs at virtually full speed -
- I tested this with several benchmarks. And this is without
- any extra hardware at all. Looks like you forgot to get
- your facts straight again, mr. Corn.
-
- DC> Do most
- DC> Amiga owners have a fast enough Amiga to run Mac apps even HALF as
- DC> quickly as Mac owners can?
-
- When I look at the average Powermac running the average Mac program,
- I'm not surprised it doesn't seem all that fast, considering how
- little Mac system software used native ppc code until 7.5.3. The
- Powermac 5300 desktop isn't much faster than that of my
- old and oh-so-crummy 030 A2000. If at all.
-
- DC> Why run an OS that can't run any modern apps? That can't do most of
- DC> the things a modern PC can?
-
- Because it's better in a lot of ways. Simple as that.
- Oh, and we can run Linux or NetBSD Unix on our Amigas, beside just
- about every other OS on the planet. What's that you said about OS's?
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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