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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 06:00:11 -0800
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- >G'Day Karl Thomas, you wrote:
- >: haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink) writes:
- >
- >: >barrett@radiks.net (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >
- >: >MAc, Mac,. fuck off with your MAC. We don't want MACS and besides, most
- >: >Amiga users can get a MAC for $0! Can you?!
- >
- >: If I stole an Amiga like you would have to steal the Mac roms I could get
- >: an Amiga for free. Last time I checked Apple wasn't giving out the ROM code
- .
- >
- >: >Expendable to 8 meg?! Is that all?! and 128-bit architecture alone doesn't
- m
- >ean
- >: >it is fast! You seem to be the kind of gouy that thinks "The higher the
- >
- >: Who would need to expand the *VRAM* more than 8 Megs?
- >
- >Umm, people who want double or triple buffered 1600x1280x24 bit..
- >(and the bank account to pay for it..)
- >
- >: >number, the better the results!" Well, in some cases that's true.
- >: >CyberVision 64 is a pretty good GFX card, up to 1600x1280x256colours.
- >
- >: How pathetic. Amiga users use to brag about the best hardware now they
- >: make excuses for mediocrity.
- >
- >Yeah, and we still brag about the best OS, whilst MAC users still say,
- >"Copeland's coming, Copelands coming..."
-
- With Apple's announced 700 million dollar loss, I'd bet it ain't coming
- soon!
-
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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- ... Make another pot of coffee
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