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- From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Subject: Re: New hardware reference guide?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.221936.7067@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Organization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- References: <1992Nov17.095346.270@daimi.aau.dk> <1992Nov15.104025.10090@sth.frontec.se> <1992Nov16.130752.18379@imada.ou.dk> <OAHV
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:19:36 GMT
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- In a previous article, u920659@daimi.aau.dk (Carsten S|rensen) says:
- >Russia to me, keeping information away from the public... I expect that soon
- >the demoscene will switch to other brands like PC (with DOCUMENTED VGA...),
- >ATARI FALCON, and this goes for me; ARCHIMEDES... But some of us will also
- >keep the amiga and write demos.
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- >FUN := DEMOS , *NOT* := OS-friendly spreadsheets
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- I have a question for you: How can you compare something like the
- Amiga *LINE* of computers to the un-expandable systems we incorrectly
- call 'PC's (You really mean Intel MS-DOS box, a PC is a 'personal
- computer' which could mean a Sparc for some).
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- When you write a demo do you document it as being an Amiga Demo, or
- as an Amiga 500 with 1M of ram and no ECS demo. One of the things you
- will find with the Amiga line of computers that is different than with
- MS-DOS machines is that the Amiga line is expanding. With expansion
- you obviously get change, and if you are twiddling the hardware with no
- valid reason, these changes will break your software.
-
- As I've said in an earlier message, I believe that there are
- valid 'stop-gap' solutions to O.S. deficiencies. To go around the O.S. when
- there is a valid O.S. function to do what you need makes no sence at all.
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