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- From: pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 01:27:22 GMT
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- ttammi@spider.compart.fi writes:
- > M Papachristos <se3mp@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
- >
- > ->a game on the Spectrum emulator, ALL AT THE SAME TIME? Or, the PeeCee
- > ->user's nightmare: doing something else while an application is printing!
- >
- > If you had ever used PCs, you'd know even a lowly 386sx machine with
- > Win 3.11 can do background printing quite well (not to mention PCs
- > with Win95, WinNT, Warp, Linux etc.). Maybe you should check the
- > printer options.
-
- WRONG!!!
- My friend's 486 cannot print and do ANYTHING at the same time!
- And it is running WinDoze3.11
-
- >
- > As for your other examples, yes, I can e.g. play Doom95 quite well as
- > Win95 is running other applications in the background. Try that with
- > your Amiga. ;-)
-
- Man, I wish the Amiga could multitask!
- I guess the PC's have us there!
-