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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <Dpn0tI.48x@bton.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Brighton, UK
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- References: <4k148p$1a3@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> <90.40607.1052@svis.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:27:17 GMT
-
- Byran Lee (byran.lee@svis.org) wrote:
- : 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
-
- Oh yes we do. PC hardware installation is, on the whole part, a bloody
- nightmare, especially getting it to work with *ALL* software.
-
- : coming from you Aimga guys in UK, (must be a result of eating that mad-cow
- : tainted beef over the years)
-
- There's nothing wrong with our cows. Anyway madness/genius pretty much the
- same thing ;-) At least our cows arn't pumped full of hormones!
-
- :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.
-
- I'm glad you had sucess with one card. This is one of the exceptions to the
- rule however. Never mind, I'm sure you'll brag about your one success for
- years to come!
-
- : AND IT'S NOT A PLUG & PLAY CARD EITHER!
- Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - plug 'n' pray. This is probably why it did
- work first time.
-
- : It's fools like you that drove me away from the Amiga, and I haven't
- : regreted my decision to leave it ever since.
-
- Huh huh. Well good riddance to bad rubbish!
-
- : GET A LIFE LOSER!!
-
- Actually, I'm wondering who needs a life round here - any ideas?
-
- : (or at least stop eating that mad-cow tainted beef. It's not good for you.)
-
- As I said, our cows are perfectly happy in their sanitarium! :-)
- --
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
- * T.Lewis@bton.ac.uk * if Charles Manson was sitting on *
-