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- From: heitkamp@ibm.net (Frederick V. Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
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- Date: 13 Apr 1996 14:06:16 GMT
- Organization: Private Site
- Message-ID: <4kocco$38kg@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
- 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$ipf@hubcap.clemson.edu> <4ke7se$atd@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu> <DpsCv8.KMx@eskimo.com>
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- G. Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com) wrote:
- : 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
- : 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
-
- One thing I have noticed is that the Amiga appears to be able to play a
- sound file without interruption while copying files or whatever. Win95,
- OS/2, and Linux all hesitate or interrupt the playing when certain operations
- take place.
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-