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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!y
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- Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 08:29:09 GMT
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- Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
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- : >I agree this is actually a hardware design fault in the PC,
- : >but that's what makes the Amiga so great. Even the hardware
- : >is prepared for a multitasking OS.
-
- : In that case so is the Mac's.
-
- Well, no not exactly. The AMigaOS multitasks so well at the moment due to the
- custom chips which the Mac doesn't have. However, any computer can be made to
- multitask - it just depends how elegantly you want it done. This is the
- Amiga's strong point in this respect - elegancy!
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
- * T.Lewis@bton.ac.uk * if Charles Manson was sitting on *
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