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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
- References: <92345.140741U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09f0@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 11:51:39 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 51
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- In article <92345.140741U28037@uicvm.uic.edu>, Jason Kratz
- <U28037@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.141948@cs.utwente.nl>, kvisser@cs.utwente.nl (Klaas R.
- >Visser) says:
- >>
- >> no. IBM PC's are together with Compaq PC's the best designed and
- >> actually NEVER crash on good software.
- >> When ya try to run the horriest wordprocessor even, WP v5.x on a
- >>clone,
- >> it will crash in a few days/hours. On an IBM never.
- >>
- >It's very obvious here that you don't live in the US because there are A LOT
- of
- >good clone makers here in the US. I used a Gateway 2000 386/33 for 2 years
- and
- >it only crashed once and that was because of something I did that I knew would
- >make it crash. And by the way, WP is one of the best programs out there.
- >
- >>> |>
- >>> |> >> Ok, how about IBM?
- >>> |>
- >>> |> >IBM is way over-priced, and from my own experience, they BREAK WAY TOO
- >>MUCH.
- >>> |> >You're better off with a compatible (Dell, Compaq, etc.).
- >>> |>
- >>> |> True. Which is a choice you have with 80x86 machines.
- >>
- >> true, but only compaq compares in quality......
- >>
- >As I said before its obvious you don't live here in the US and like before
- I'll
- >mention one of the best clone makers - Gateway2000. IBM brand and Compaq are
- >both way overpriced. Hell, in my office we had more problems with the IBMs
- >than the clones (Gateway machines).
- >
- >Jason
- These discussions about how often an Amiga crashes or doesn't crash vs.
- thre IBM's reliability is irrelevent. The frequency of Amiga crashes is
- indirectly proportional to the quality of the programming of the application.
- If people wrote not only OS freindly but OS legal programs they would crash no
- morte often than a program on the IBM (or compats). It is flaky software not
- hardware. This unfortunately will not change, because C= charges way too much
- to become a registered developer, and Amiga programming is so different than
- IBM programming. It is more like Mac programming, because damn near everything
- is an OS call.
- Jay Brown
-
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- IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
- POSSIBLE.
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