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- From: tempest@netins.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 10:47:06 GMT
- Organization: INS Information Services, Des Moines, IA USA
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- Message-ID: <009A0960.69D1E067@netins.net>
- References: <4k148p$1a3@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <90.40607.1052@svis.org>
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- In article <90.40607.1052@svis.org>, byran.lee@svis.org (Byran Lee) writes:
- >nv> Message-ID: <4k148p$1a3@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>
- >nv> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- >nv> comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- >nv> Organization: University of Strathclyde
- >
- >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. Not surprising
- >coming from you Aimga guys in UK, (must be a result of eating that mad-cow
- >tainted beef over the years) 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, 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!
- >
- >It's fools like you that drove me away from the Amiga, and I haven't
- >regreted my decision to leave it ever since.
- >
-
- No you were just a fool to being with.
-
- > GET A LIFE LOSER!!
- >
- >(or at least stop eating that mad-cow tainted beef. It's not good for you.)
-
- Now do the world a favor and leave the Amiga newsgroups too, you are an
- idiot. You haven't no problems with one card on an ibm does not mean all
- hardware on ibm is easy to install or works like this, most does NOT!
-
-