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- From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:24:15 GMT
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- In <83763@ut-emx.uucp> ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
- >
- >Processor card extra $4000.
-
- Huh?
-
- >I think Amigas are nicr machines, [and I cannot type ], but until I
- >see a decent network card and connectivity, I will remain skeptical.
-
- You mean like the arcnet and ethernet cards and TCP/IP software
- they've been shipping for year, or the SANA0II networking standard?
- Or are you looking for third-party stuff like the AppleTalk, Novell client,
- etc. products that also exist?
-
- >C= has done a lot of vaporware for me to belive in the Emplant. When
- >I see it, I will take a [mostly] unbiased look at it. Until then,
- >my Mac will do.
-
- Emplant isn't Commodore's vaporware, it's made by Utilities Unlimited.
- Strictly speaking, it's not vaporware any more - lots of people have them,
- but I've yet to hear of a single person being able to get one working
- using the pre-beta quality software that supports the board.
-
- >PS: Amiga people do have something to brag about, a decently multitasking
- > OS years before anyone else. But, I will still remain w/ the Mac.
-
- .... which seems to be holding onto its decent multitasking OS (NOT!) long
- after the others have gotten one.
-
-
-
- --
- Don Lloyd / "No, I just think that a computer grafted on top of \
- don@chopin.udel.edu | another computer is a kludge. It has nothing to do |
- GeNIE: D.LLOYD7 \ with the Intel CPU" - Jerry Shekhel /
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