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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 96 16:42:46
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- In article <316dbbdb.8569828@news.onramp.net> dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn) 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.
-
- If the Mac version of Lemmings lets you multitask while it runs, it would be
- worth a fortune to Apple--because as yet they don't have an OS that will let you
- multitask while it runs.
-
- Could you please cut your followup lines in the future? Besides making a fool
- of yourself in more newsgroups than necessary, you're also bothering bona fide
- users and needlessly increasing bandwidth.
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
- The successor to Widows 95 will be called Orphans 2000
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