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- From: haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- 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: 25 Mar 1996 10:23:28 +0100
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) writes:
-
- >Again, this is silly. No one buys new 486/33s these days; the current
- >low end is a P75, and very soon it will be a P100. The Pentium makes
- >Win95 fly.
-
- An 68000 makes the Amiga's WB fly even faster! SO what's your point?!
-
- >>Oh the subject of Win 95, a couple of points. Plug and Play. HAven't amigas had
- >>basically the same thing for years?
-
- >Not really. They've had autoconfig. The user still has to mess with
- >setting up the software on the Amiga.
-
- But autoconfig works! P&P doesn't.
-
- >>Take the example:
- >>I put a second HD in my machine. Plug in, switch on. Machine sits there. For a whole 5
- >>seconds. Boots, and I go to partition the new drive, at which point it tells me 'drives
- >>have been added / removed from the system' etc. Ok, so it wasnt sure if something had
- >>been added or removed.
- >>Win 95's plug and play requires that you specifically specify the new device, or let
- >>it spend 20 mins or so looking for it (which a m8 of mine did.... it couldnt find his
- >>new HD......)
-
- >Absolutely false. I recently added a CDROM to my system. I stuck it
-
- WHAT?! Were you there when he did that?! No?! Then shut up! One good-working
- example doesn't mean it works great. However, a few not-working examples
- really do mean it's not that great at all.
- You see David, that's your problem. You can't just accept that people are
- having problems with Win95/p&p. Count the people who have posted problems
- about that, only in this newsgroup. How easy/user friendly was that OS?! How
- well does p&p work?! David, be at least honest to yourself. It's no need
- banging around here. You will always lose.
-
- >The Amiga series of machines is so much more expensive than PCs that
- >it isn't even funny.
-
- Also a lot better, and that only starts the fun!
-
-
- Okay David, since you have compared Works with all Amiga packages, gimme a
- list of all Amiga packages you have used to compare it with. Ouch, that one
- really hurts now doesn't it, David?!
-
- >Perhaps because Amiga technology really hasn't progressed for 3 years,
- >and so software technology really hasn't changed much in that time
- >either? Or perhaps because you are happy to ignore just how poorly
-
- Perhaps?! Maybe?! Hey David, facts please! Not just guessing around!
-
- >AGA fares next to more modern technology? Or perhaps the new things
- >offered in Win95 aren't understood by you?
-
- Well David, tell me why an Amiga anim runs smoother than one on a
- 486/dx100?! ANd I am talking a 640x512x256 Amiga anim versus a 320x200x256
- peecee anim. You see, I even give your 'fancy' peecee some advantages.
- BTW, the Amiga uses an 020 at 14mhz. Another advantage to your 'fancy'
- peecee. Also the Amiga was doing some little background stuff, while the
- peecee wasn't. Another advantage for your 'fancy' peecee. The Amiga only
- used slow AGA graphics, while the peecee used a so called fancy Trident card
- (1 mb). Another advantage for your 'fancy' peecee. Both anims were playing
- from memory, but even if I played the Amiga one from HD and the peecee one
- from memory, i would at least achive equal results.
-
- Harold.
-