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- From: aa302@Freenet.carleton.ca (Russell McOrmond)
- Subject: Re: Hardware Reference Manual
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.173029.21776@freenet.carleton.ca>
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- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 17:30:29 GMT
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- In a previous article, idr@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Ian D Romanick) says:
- >This whole issue is kinda like the gun control issue in the US. If you
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- Being a Canadian that giggles at the gun 'lack of control' issue in
- the U.S., I agree. What gun control allows is an easier sence of
- the old 'black hat, white hat' issue of 'good guys and bad guys'. Those
- with a Gun are eithor Cops or Criminals.
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- In the case of Amiga hardware, you eithor have CBM and other
- O.S. companies, and you have poor authors who are criminals in my mind
- as they rip people off with their software that doesn't run on upgradable
- systems.
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- CBM no longer wants to document things that they are not going to guaruntee
- exists in every machine. An Amiga should be defined as a computer
- with a motorola 68000 series processor running AmigaDos, not as a
- machine with 2M maximum of Chip ram on an ECS clone that cannot
- be expanded because no software would work on the expanded
- machines. Why are you hardware hitters not allowing us to do with
- audio and video what we have now accomplished with hard drives, modems,
- etc - complete hardware independance.
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