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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- 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: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 03:12:43 GMT
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- On 23 Mar 1996 02:08:01 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >>As usual, you Amiga advocates guess when you can't find facts. For
- >
- >Sorry Acorn, I didn't know what machine you had exactly, I assumed you had
- >a Mac still.
-
- Clueless Amiga user. Tempest gives 'em all a bad name. :)
-
- >>the record, I had an A3000/25 with 6M RAM, 44M Syquest, 100M
- >
- >Ok so you had a 5 mip machine, is this suppose to be alot better than a 0.8
- >mip machine? You never owned a Top End Amiga then, you don't know what you
- >are talking about, now we know. :) Thanks for letting us know that you
- >are clueless about the Amiga's abilities and why.
-
- At the time the 060 wasn't out, and the A4000 was a bad joke. Not
- having the top machine doesn't remotely equiate to being clueless
- about a single thing.
-
- >>ESDI->SCSI drive, 105M Quantum, 210M Quantum, 52M Quantum, and various
- >>other drives while I had the machine. And I had an A500 too - when it
- >
- >Was having many variuos hard drives suppose to make you more of an expert?
- >on the Amiga?
-
- Is being rude supposedly making you look better?
-
- >>>can run his lame mac software on our machines if we choose.. I think this fact
-
- >Yes I know of Power Macs, acorn, but most mac software isn't made for a PowerPC
- >chip, and even the Mac OS itself is not fully using the PowerPC chip, so you
-
- Both of these are inaccurate; the first is outright wrong.
-
- >can't really compare a Power PC performance with a mac computer's perforance
- >can we. And this still does not change the fact that Amiga's run Mac software
- >perfectly, in some cases even better than a real mac can.
-
- Hardly. :) But believe what you like.
-
- >Cost of a mac or ibm computer doesn't mean shit to a person that wants a Real
- >Computer. If you are a clueless sheep, then your averge crap box ibm is fine,
-
- Real Computer being?
-
- >but if you want a real computer with no hazzles that gets the job done better
-
- Hazzle? What's a hazzle?
-
- >and cheaper than mac/ibm, Amiga is the way to go. You must remember that the
-
- We've proven beyond any doubt the Amiga is far more expensive, at
- least in the USA. Most don't even debate that anymore.
-
- >Amiga is a far nicer machine/OS than ibm's and mac's put together. If it wasn't,
- >everyone would of jumped to ibm/mac a long time ago. There is a reason why
- >people have Amiga's and can't stand mac's/ibm's.
-
- I hate to break it to you, but a LOT of people have. The local Amiga
- boards, fe, are pretty much full of IBMers who like C-Net software.
- (Which, incidently, is about the nicest BBS software available on the
- Amiga/PC/Mac platforms, assuming you like an old-style text interface
- and you don't mind not having automation packages available to
- automate things for you...the last of which isn't a function of the
- BBS package, but the BBS's popularity.)
-
- >I personally will buy an 060 soon for my Amiga, and as soon as the PowerPC 604
- >Amiga's come out I will buy one of those too, no matter what the price is.
- >I want quality, not cheap crap that I want to throw out the window everytime
- >I have to use it.
-
- Whatever. Every time my Amiga guru'd that's exactly how I felt.
-
- >There also must be a reason why you must keep reading/posting in Amiga areas.
- >I think you know that ibm's and mac's suck and you wish they ran like a slow
- >Amiga can even, let alone a fast Amiga. If you truely were happy with your
- >crap box machine, you wouldn't be here to begin with. You just being here
- >tells everyone that your machine sucks.
-
- Whatever. I've replied to this a few times already, but suffice to
- say I like keeping up with the latest technology on all platforms, and
- in this forum I definately get to do that - even if it won't exist for
- another year or two. :)
-