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  1. Path: wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de!ibl-juwa
  2. From: ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
  4. Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
  5. Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:42:10 LOCAL
  6. Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany
  7. Message-ID: <ibl-juwa.461.00209472@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de>
  8. 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> <4kdrnr$ipf@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4kgl5h$fb9@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>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> <4kdrnr$ipf@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4kgl5h$fb9@fbi-news.Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE>Organization: Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften Uni Dortmund
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  12. In article <4khj7i$nu1@hubcap.clemson.edu> charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV) writes:
  13. >From: charlet@hubcap.clemson.edu (Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV)
  14. >Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
  15. >Date: 11 Apr 1996 00:20:02 GMT
  16.  
  17. >:It's just a good example of the Amiga's philosophy. Everything works smooth
  18. >:together with everything.
  19.  
  20. >Just so long as you don't say actually *using* high-density floppies. 
  21. >Because, until the release of the Walker, using high-density floppies is
  22. >painful at best.
  23.  
  24. They're slow as hell but they're NOT boggin the multitasking.
  25.  
  26. >I'd disagree about the "everything works smoothly with everything" too,
  27. >considering that there are a fair amount of Amiga programs that are
  28. >anything but smoothly integrated into the OS.  If everything ran
  29. >"properly", I wouldn't need programs like ChangeScreen, etc.
  30.  
  31. I was talking about the