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- From: mjbrown@lonestar.utsa.edu (Marc J. Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.193133.17319@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 19:31:33 GMT
- References: <mwm.1azz@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us> <92209.143751PROHVK38@TREARN.BITNET> <sheldon.712261332@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu>
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- In article <sheldon.712261332@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
- >
- >It'd kind of be like writing a program for the Amiga that emulated
- >a TRS-80 Color Computer... one could do it, but who would want it,
- >and be willing to pay for it?
-
- Actually, I have a better parallel. Imagine trying to spiff up a Yugo
- to the performance of a Corvette. You'd have to literally reshape the
- Yugo's internal structure to that of the Corvette (ignore the practical
- impossibility of this situation :). In the end, you've got your Yugo that
- can be a Corvette, but it would have been better and cheaper if you had
- simply bought a Corvette and saved yourself the trouble.
-
- On the other hand, if you have a Corvette and want to have the option of
- making it perform like a Yugo (because, for instance, the Yugo has some
- special feature available exclusively to it), the hardware changes required
- are imaginably small, if existent.
-
- BTW, don't you think it's a bit ironic that, in THIS country anyways, a
- computer's degree of capability is inversely proportional to its popularity?
- It takes a place like Europe to assure me that humans as a whole aren't
- staggeringly soft in the head.
-
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