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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 01:47:05 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <DoB0sw.CxI@bton.ac.uk> <4jvh78$8gn@mack.rt66.com> <1996Apr4.001549.53820@cobra.uni.edu> <4kd18u$kl3@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>
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- On 9 Apr 1996 08:49:02 +0200, haroldk@stack.urc.tue.nl (Harold Klink)
- wrote:
-
- >sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) writes:
- >
- >>Why can't the Amiga multitask when I played Lemmings. I thought you could have
- >>fun while formatting floppies...
- >
- >Maybe because it's PROGRAMMED that way?! Gee Sinclap, get a life and come
- >back some other time, will ya?!
-
- Horribly bad argument. Mac apps, likewise, can forcefully take
- control of the OS...or it can be nice and let you multitask other
- apps, like Mac games today...and Mac Lemmings, too.
-
- >And I can get lotsa fun on my Amiga while formatting floppies. A lot more
- >than I can get on a MAC or Peecee. If you can't accept that, than that's
- >your problem.....
-
- One of these days you'll figure out that isn't the case for a
- knowledgable Mac user..or any PC user.
-