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- From: andyp@admiral.uucp (Andy Patrizio)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
- Reply-To: andyp@admiral.uucp (Andy Patrizio)
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 04:04:59 GMT
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- andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
-
- > In article <BzFyvK.127@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett
- > >>Who cares? If I wanted VM, I'd go buy Gigamem *right now*.
- > >
- > > With GigaMem, and there guarantees that it will continue to be supported
- > >and updated? Are there any guarantees that it will run under fewer OS
- > >versions? The company that developed GigaMem could go out of business
- > >tomorrow, or Commodore could change something at any time to make GigaMem
- > >no longer work. A real Amiga virtual memory solution has to be supported
- > >by Commodore.
- >
- > Well, you continue to surpass my expectations in whining and complaining,
- > making things up, and adopting stupid points of view just to have something
- > to flame about.
- >
- > Prediction: if Commodore came out with a VM system tommorow you'd
- > 1) complain it wasn't memory protection
- > 2) complain it was different that Gigamem.
- > 3) complain it was way late.
- >
- > Naturally, since you probably still use 1.2/1.3 on a single floppy drive
- > A500, and your mom won't let you touch her A3000 any more, the VM
- > question doesn't actually affect you. But you'd still flame about it.
- >
- > Second: In this flame, you've apparently decided that only software
- > by the computer manufacturer is acceptable to purchase. After all, it
- > only works today....tommorow Apple could release system 8...
- > all the graphics accelerator cards could stop working. Microsoft could
- > release MSDOS 6.5 and Stacker could break. So you're saying
- > only buy Apple software for Macs, Microsoft software for MSDOS machines,
- > AT&T software for Unix, and so on.
- >
- >
- > I just gain more respect for the ISU computer science department every
- > time you post :-)
- >
- > andy
- > --
- > andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
- >
- > "Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."
- >
- > Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share.
- > I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
-
- Whew! Never thought I'd see a CBM'er let Marc have it. And boy did you.
- What amazes me is that Marc has stayed on this long. I mean, I saw the
- writing on the wall, thanks to work, and bailed. I gave one good shot at
- CBM management that I'd been dying to say, and now I've got a 486/33 to
- play with. I'd rather have my 3000, but let's face it; when it comes to
- expensive computer hardware, this is one time where you go with the
- crowd. When I see Sierra, SSI, and EA (Origin included) all dropping
- support within 2 weeks, I have to get the feeling something is wrong. And
- I still think 3DO will be the end of Amiga.
-
-
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- andyp%admiral.uucp@yale.edu (Andy Patrizio) <yale!admiral!andyp>
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