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- From: nugget@genesis.nred.ma.us (Ralph Barbagallo)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga now kicks PC butt - no way.
- Message-ID: <92122016157@genesis.nred.ma.us>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 14:54:49 GMT
- References: <exuptr.409.0@exu.ericsson.se> <shogun.09kk@tension.UUCP>
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- In article <shogun.09kk@tension.UUCP> shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown) writes:
- >There have been a few posts by Clone users refering to the multimedia. Is the
- >the MPC that cloners have been talking about? Is it the term multimedia? If
- >it's the latter, guess what. Amiga users have had that for years. As far as
- >sound quality, the Amigas seven year old sound chip sounds just as good as the
- >SBPro that IBM Clone users die for! Without a soiund card, yeah the PC can
- >make sounds other than beeps, but there is the most annoying buzz in the
- >sounds. It's sorta like saying, ":Yeah, I can go faster than 60 vin a Yugo.
- >The shimmying doesn't make much of a difference".
- > Jay Brown
- >
- >==============================================================================
- >IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
- > POSSIBLE.
- >==============================================================================
- >
-
- The whole IBM Multimedia situation makes me laugh. They say WOW!... Graphics
- , Sound, and TEXT all in one! Uh.. guys... have you ever heard of a video game?
- It just dawns on them that graphics and sound are important while computers
- like the Amiga have had this since their introduction! In PC users' definitions
- the Atari 2600 could have been a multimedia engine... heh!
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- Ralph A. Barbagallo III
- nugget@genesis.nred.ma.us
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