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- From: Marc Forrester <mef4@aber.ac.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 26 Mar 1996 18:06:49 GMT
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) wrote:
- >>> At a fraction of the speed of Mac/PCs costing much less.
- >>Yeah, but can you run an Amiga on your mac?
- >
- >If you've got a Mac, why would you -want- to run Amiga software?
- >There is a tiny (non-existant?) market for such things, finn.
-
- Well, the occasional game would be nice. The game support for
- the Mac is just barely keeping ahead of the Acorn Archimedes..
-
- Anyway, why wouldn't you want to? Platform independant software
- and perfect emulation is obviously the future, and the Amiga
- scene produces useful miscellany at a rate second only to GNU.
-
- >>>even though even the slowest PowerMac ever built is
- >>>still probably as fast/faster than the fastest Amiga model.
- >>
- >> just wait for 1997... Plus, not all macs are powermacs
- >
- >Just wait..just wait.
- >Tell me, what kind of PowerMacs do you think will be available in 1997?
-
- Well, looking at their business report they may not have too much cash
- floating around for R&D, but what are you suggesting? That the Amiga
- will always be behind the times? Yes, it's been comatose for the last
- few years, but such things don't cause permanent damage.
-
-