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- Path: nntp-trd.UNINETT.no!lolsen
- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 21:28:05 GMT
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- Byran Lee (byran.lee@svis.org) wrote:
-
- : nv> David Corn <dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com> wrote:
- : >> Try webbing over to www.windows95.com.
-
- : nv> Just had a look, and the site appears to be run by yet another Bill Gates
- : nv> sycophant. What was I supposed to be impressed with BTW?
-
- : >>Putting up with crap is why I got sick of the Amiga.
-
- : nv> Putting up with crap is exactly why I don't use Microsoft products. What's
- : nv> your point?
-
- : nv> BTW, anyone who claims that adding hardware to a PC is easy is obviously
- : nv> lying. In some cases it may be true, but in general it is a nightmare.
- : nv> Most PC people you talk to have had at least one nightmare installing
- : nv> a card or whatever, and often more than that!
-
- : nv> I am not being facile here, It is just a fact of life that while one may
- : nv> be able to get better hardware on clones, it is rarely easy to get it
- : nv> working properly!
-
- : And you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
-
- And you do?
-
- : Not surprising
- : coming from you Aimga guys in UK, (must be a result of eating that mad-cow
- : tainted beef over the years)
-
- Nice to see a real comedian in here for a change.
-
- : I just put a $69.00 Revel SC400 16bit sound card
- : into a friend's system and didn't have to do anything but run the config
- : software, which modified the autoexec.bat and saved the only hardware setting
- : we changed (the default volume level, it was too loud) to the sound card's
- : EEPROM. That's right dork, EEPROM. This card didn't require us to set any
- : jumpers or anything like that at all like you are trying to imply,
-
- Is he? I don't see any evidence of that.
- Comprehension my friend, comprehension.
-
- : and it
- : stores the card's hardware settings in a EEPROM similar to the way a modem
- : does.
-
- : AND IT'S NOT A PLUG & PLAY CARD EITHER!
-
- Really, w o w. Now, try installing a not-too-recent
- Setcom-modem ( or any old one really ) together with
- just about any fax or sound card - or at least cards of
- the same aera. Bet your IRQs will sufficate.
-
- : It's fools like you that drove me away from the Amiga,
-
- Your above statement prooves you're about as serious
- with computers as you are with comedy.
-
- : and I haven't
- : regreted my decision to leave it ever since.
-
- Yes, but then again, what you don't know doesn't hurt you either.
-
- : GET A LIFE LOSER!!
-
- : (or at least stop eating that mad-cow tainted beef. It's not good for you.)
-
-
- Riiight. If this is your idea of fun...
- Cheers...
-
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