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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- References: <1992Dec12.171958.8306@usl.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09ht@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 13 Dec 92 20:14:56 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 56
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- In article <1992Dec12.171958.8306@usl.edu>, das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel
- A) writes:
- >In article <70750,443-101292161602@3.10.7.22> 70750,443@cis.com (Spike)
- writes:
- >>In article <1g640cINN4vo@mozz.unh.edu>, ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G
- >>Greene) wrote:
- >>
- >>> I can also multitask most of my games, since
- >>> I have OS2. So this is not an Amiga only capability.
- >>
- >>Yes, but Amiga owners do not have to have 16 MB
- >>of RAM to use this capability of their OS. Nor does
- >>Amiga's OS take up 30 MB of HD space. *This,* IMO
- >>is what produced the HD status quo among PCs -
- >>people needed lots HD space to run their big, messy
- >>operating systems.
- >
- >I do not have 16 megs in my 386. I do not take up 30megs of
- >HD space with my OS/2 2.0. Blam! Blam! Your point are blown to
- >pieces!
- >
- >>Hmm. Maybe we should try and get C= to make Amiga
- >>DOS 4.0 bigger, nastier, buggier, etc. so Amiga
- >>owners will no longer be able to run it from floppies,
- >>and will be *forced* to purchase a HD.
- >
- >Why won't you guys figure out that there is a *reason* why OS/2 _can_
- >take up a lot of room?
- >
- >>Naaah . . .
- >
- >I thought so.
- >
- >>Spike
- >--
- >Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
-
- >
- >"There once was a Lady from Hyde/who ate some bad apples and died/but while we
- >lamented/the apples fermented/making cider inside her inside!"
- > -Member of the Court, Texas Renaissance Festival
- How much room does yopur system take up? Can it run off of a single floppy?
- How much memory do you have? Can you multitask that game in under four megs
- while the os is running? OS2 can take up so much memory, because clone users
- are used to needing that much memory because the machines are so damn cheap the
- clone makers put the memory on there to make it sound more impressive. In a
- clone one meg is not the same as a meg on the amiga, because on one meg in a
- clone you can do very little, where as in one meg on an Amiga you can do a lot.
- Hell, I think they may have even written OS2 in Ada just to pump up the file
- sizes.
- 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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