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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Emplant outrunning an Alpha? NOT!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.193905.26723@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 19:39:05 GMT
- References: <83816@ut-emx.uucp>
- Sender: news@dartvax.dartmouth.edu (The News Manager)
- Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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- ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes:
-
- >I hope I am not wasting bandwith with this, so I apologize in
- >advance.
-
- >I posted an item about how the Amiga will not be a workstation until
- >it has some decent networking software. I got some e-mail from an
- >Amiga user saying that The Emplant is twice as fast as a DEC
- >Alpha machine. I am not posting anything
- >more, because I am not sure if it is a copyright violation to post
- >E-mail that is privately sent to you.
-
- >Please, when advocating a machine, stick to the facts. The only
- >way an Amiga would outrun an Alpha machine is if the Alpha machine
- >is turned off.
-
- That guy obviously didn't know what he was talking about (if that was
- what he really said). Just want to let you know that *MOST* Amiga users
- aren't as dumb as the one you've come across.
-
- >--
- >********** ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) **********
- >Windows NT: * Disclaimer: I speak for myself *
- > ***********************************
- >You WANT your hard drive trashed now.
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
- e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
-