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- From: mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 22:16:01 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <19960321.76BFC58.1396B@contessa.phone.net>
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- In <4iqvl4$mjb@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
- > mwm@contessa.phone.net (Mike Meyer) writes:
- > >In <4iofm6$e4j@serpens.rhein.de>, mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst) wrote:
- > >> That's about the same. Noone would buy an Amiga for Linux or NetBSD
- > >> nor would anyone buy an Amiga for "any software which runs under Linux
- > >> or NetBSD".
- > >You're wrong. I bought an Amiga to run NetBSD. I bought it to run
- > >software which runs under NetBSD.
- > Well, then you are an exception to the rule and I wonder why you
- > didn't buy a faster 486 for NetBSD for the same price.
-
- Is saying "an exception to the rule" your way of saying "I was wrong
- but won't admit it"?
-
- As for why I chose what I did - first, the faster 486 for the same
- price didn't exist. The bundled systems all came with hardware I
- didn't need and/or required buying extra hardware, either one of which
- drove the price up beyond the Amiga price. The unbundled system cost
- more. That may no longer be true. However, it is still true that
- it's cheaper to buy one hot spare for two Amigas than to buy hot
- spares for an Amiga and a PC.
-
- > >> Which isn't even enough to install Linux or NetBSD.
- > >Sorry, but you can install NetBSD on an 80 meg drive. It's just not
- > >very useful afterwards.
- > Not much of a difference, no ? Besides, with _just an 80M drive_ you
- > do not have 80MB for NetBSD unless you dare to boot from floppy.
-
- No more than the difference between right and wrong. If I couldn't
- install it, you would have been right. That it's not usefull for real
- work after I install it means you were wrong. And the 80 meg figure
- included room for an ADOS boot partition.
-
- <mike
-