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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 96 00:52:55
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <DoKFsB.FFM@eskimo.com> drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin) writes:
- > Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
-
- > : The A500 did never beat the competition. But it was cheap, cheap enough
- > : for you to afford it. Now that you can afford more you call it crap.
- >
- > If I remember right, back when the A500 first came out, the standard PC was
- > perhaps a 286 or 386SX with either EGA or VGA. SVGA was just comming
- > out, and the SoundBlaster made its first appearance. Those systems
- > weren't exactly cheap - the A500 wasn't either, but it was a whole lot
- > less expensive for the things you got.
-
- The way I remember it, the 386 came out around the same time and was considered
- Really Something (tm) for super-duper network servers. They didn't run anything
- remotely like the A500's OS + GUI of course, but that was probably just because
- nothing like it existed at the time. :-)
-
-
- > Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- > Amiga junkie and user since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- > Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- > Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
-
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