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- From: ccb8m@onyx.cs.Virginia.EDU (Charles C. Bundy)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.183308.10172@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
- References: <42720@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <BzKM8G.17H@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <42758@sdcc12.ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 18:33:08 GMT
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- In article <42758@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> cg18ffl@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Spumoni...) writes:
- >>> I'll do better than that. I'll show you a 1 meg 500 for $299 that the
- >>>local dealer is selling. The 500 is somewhat of a wimpy (although perfectly
- >>>useable) machine. For what you get, it's a reasonably good deal.
- >
- >>We were talking about computers, not consoles. I can get a PC for
- >>$29.95. I wouldn't want to, though. Let's see you do something
- >>useful on a computer with no hard drive and 1 MB of RAM.
- >
- > Duh. You said, "Show me an Amiga that costs $350 NEW." I did, and now
- >you're pulling some extraneous crap out of your PC butt. The point is not
- >"doing something useful" (precisely what are you referring to here) but merely
-
- [ deleted some lines]
-
- > The ambiguity of your statement, "...something useful..." is made even
- >more apparent when you consider there are people who do the exact same thing
- >with C-64s and Apple IIs, which have LESS than one meg of memory.
-
- Yep, I guess I didn't just survive a semester of Grad CS in which I used my
- measly 8 bit 6809 system with a lousy 512k of RAM to write a network simulator
- , a number of architecture simulations including a full microcoded CPU and
- IEEE 754 pipelined vector instructions, and am working on an epson bitmap
- interpreter. In addition, I wrote ~50 pages worth of programming languages
- response papers. Gee I must not have done anything useful Paul...
-
- If you are sarcastically impaired; You are a stupid twit, for the above
- "useful" statement...
-
- Charles C. Bundy IV.
- ccb8m@virginia.edu
-