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- From: drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
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- Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 05:35:32 GMT
-
- Jerry Heyman (jerry@arlut.utexas.edu) wrote:
- : Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV (charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu) wrote:
-
- : : Someone please explain to some of us exactly WHAT the fascination of people
- : : on this newsgroup is with FORMATTING FLOPPIES? Is that all you do with
- : : your computer all day or what?
-
- : I guess its the easiest way to show multi-tasking to those who don't know
- : (or don't understand) the concept. Openning lots of applications doesn't
- : necessarily show multi-tasking, but having the computer actually DO two
- : things at once is the perfect way to show it off.
-
- : I guess it's an issue if your machine CAN'T do something while it is also
- : formatting :-)
-
- The sad thing is that when you look at a lot of low end Amiga users, thats
- all they have! Floppy drives! If you people really wanted to be hot
- shit, you'd say how great AmigaOS is formatting that 2GB hard drive you
- have in the background while you are busy doing archiving and moving files
- around with DOpus. That is the kind of jobs I put my Amiga through...
- none of this "oh, I can format a floppy drive and play Pong at the same
- time". BAH! Get a life people!
-
- If you really wanted to say how great the OS was with devices, say how you
- can format a SyQuest disk, have a few FTP's going on your 33.6 modem, be
- decompressing one of the files you already have, playing a Scream-
- Tracker3 MOD AND be playing a game of SimCity2000 in your ShapeShifter
- window on the WB, all with a dumpy old C=3640 68040/25 CPU card.
- Formatting floppies? The real world stopped using floppies for everyday
- use several years ago. Where have you people been?
-
- : : __ ___ _ _ _ | >>>>> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu <<<<<
- : : |_)o _ |/ | |_|\_/| / \|_) |'94 BS ChE, Clemson ; "Will work for food!"
- : : | \||_ |\ | | | | |_\_/| \ |"So this is it, we're going to die!" --A.D.
- : : Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV | http://hubcap.clemson.edu/~charlet/
-
- : jerry
- : --
- : Jerry Heyman | jerry@arlut.utexas.edu O-
- : Tactical Simulation Division | http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/~jerry/main.html
- : Applied Research Laboratories of UT Austin | "Software is the difference
- : P.O. Box 8029, Austin, TX 78713-8029 | between hardware and reality"
-
- Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- Amiga junkie and user since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- Commodore64 fan since about 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- Tyranical EFNet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
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