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- From: Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
- 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?
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 96 16:48:41 GMT
- Organization: a Graveyard of Empty Bottles
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- Tiitus Tamminen (ttammi@spider.compart.fi) wrote:
- : Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
- :
- : ->My comparison was based on seeing TFX II running at about 5 frames per
- : ->second on a P6 at my local PC World.
- :
- : And how fast did that game run on a PSX? Anyways, TFX II is probably not
- : a Windows NT or Linux game, so it would probably have run somewhat
- : faster on a fast Pentium. Beats me why they demoed it on a P6.
-
- It was running under Win '95 (for some reason).
-
- : ->I suppose it comes down to bad marketing - it was so far ahead when it
- : ->was released but the advantage was lost. The PC isn't sold on merit,
- : ->people buy what they are told to buy...
- :
- : Wrong. People buy machines and OSes where the software is.
-
- People make software where the machines and OSes are 8^)
-
- A lot of common PC packages are also available on the Mac. How many Macs
- do you see in you average workplace (in England at least) ?
-
- Thanks to Intel's/Microsoft's brainwashing of the public, your average
- computer buyer just latches onto buzzwords like 'multimedia', 'pentium' and
- 'windows' without a clue what they mean or signify.
-
- C-YA
- Jon
-