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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: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 03:21:14 GMT
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- On 8 Apr 1996 15:09:15 GMT, c948374@hald.gbar.dtu.dk (Rask Ingemann
- Lambertsen) wrote:
-
- >Imagine how an Amiga user feels when Window gives you "General application
- >fault" (or something like that) from Word, Wordperfect or Turbo Pascal. Add
-
- Run Win95.
-
- >that to the feeling of not being able to multitask these programmes (so you
- >can't write a programme and the documentation at the same time). And then
- >there is the thing about formatting disks...
-
- Run Win95.
-
- Disks? What are those? :)
-
- >I've never had such constrains on my Amiga...
-
- Sure - you just never had any software to -do- anything. :)
-
- >So you still think the Amiga doesn't have SVGA? Won't surprice me at all.
-
- Not standard in a usable speed on a current machine, no. Sure, as an
- expensive add-on. On the most common Amiga sold, do most Amigas have
- this SVGA card? What's the common denominator that's written for in
- the Amiga commercial market? Please recall that I'm in the USA,
- where, for the most part, there IS no commercial Amiga market.
-