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- From: bizzetti@mbox.vol.it (Fabio Bizzetti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 23:38:53 GMT
- Organization: Video On Line
- Distribution: world
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- >In a message of 26 Mar 96 Thore Bjerklund Karlsen wrote to All:
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- > >>> If a ECS/AGA 680x0 programmer has to learn a new standard (SVGA), and a
- > >>> new CPU, why should he learn the AT's PowerPC that has no market rather
- > >>> than a 80x86 PC?
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- > >> Because the PowerAmiga will have a nice OS and the PC's won't.
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- TBK>> So, what if you buy a cheap PC and run AmigaOS on it? Will you
- TBK>> still pay twice as much for the machine labelled "Amiga", even
- TBK>> though it's exactly the same machine inside?
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- >Now what do YOU think? I would of course buy the cheap machine, after all
- >it's exactly the same inside. The only thing that counts is that it runs
- >AmigaOS and some of the software I've used for a very, very long time. You'd
- >be stupid to buy a box which has LESS expandability than a standard clone,
- >yet people seem to want this to 'protect' AmigaOS from getting killed... now
- >really, do we have so little faith in AmigaOS that it needs a custom machine
- >with lots of limitations for it to survive? Do we really think that if a PPC
- >machine could run AmigaOS/MacOS and WinNT that NOBODY would care for AmigaOS
- >anymore? Sheesh, in that case we might as well quit now and start running NT
- >or something.
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- hahaha =)
- you think AT is going to survive selling only original copies of AmigaOS to PC?
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- I see you have the right view of a company.. :^]
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- | Fabio "Maverick" Bizzetti - bizzetti@mbox.vol.it - Maverick* at IRC |
- | The maker of "CyberMan" and "Virtual Karting" |
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