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- From: jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jimmy Malcolm Pierce)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.060529.1751@ra.msstate.edu>
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- Organization: University of Southern Mississippi
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:05:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.075616.4682@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >jmpierce@whale.st.usm.edu (Jim Pierce) writes:
- >> (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >>>...or run text-based program from other floppy disks. Can the Amiga
- >>>boot off a floppy? Uh huh. Then what do the vast majority of
- >>>Amigans do? *Right*. They swap disks.
- >>
- >> Of course, they could do what I did to my Amiga, bought an external
- >>drive. So both of my Amigas have an external floppy, much easier to move
- >>them from machine to machine than ms-dog machines floppy drives. DJ.
- >
- >What? What? You know, for most people, most MS-**DOG** people
- >(never mind the fact that we were talking about OS/2) booting from a
- >floppy is done in *emergencies* when the _large_ harddrive isn't
- >accessible for some reason. And like a typical Amigan, you'll find
- >*some* way to twist PC's (OS/2 or MS-DOS) use of harddrives into being
- >a disadvantage because Amigas usually don't have harddrives to depend on.
- >
- >Woo woo. Besides, Jimmy, many PCs have dual floppies *anyway*, so
- >your point is doubly-moot.
-
- Well, I use ms-dog at work... Some of our University machines never came
- with hard drives, and some only came with one floppy drive and no hard drive.
- I don't remember any mention of os/2 in this thread... But this thread
- is so bleeping boring I usually kill most of it out of boredom from
- reading ms-dog user posts who haven't a clue as to their being abused
- by i*m ! I have said before, and I'll say it again, buy whatever computer
- you want to spend your money on, but don't spread lies about other
- machines. It is my personal use of three computer labs full of ms-dog
- computers that proves to me they are pieces of crap ! If, however,
- you like ms-dog, use it, I don't care...
- { My first computer use wasn't even a micro. }
-
- BTW, until 6 months ago, our class lab of 286s didn't have any hard
- drives, and we had to request dual floppies. One of each size, 3.5 and
- 5.25. Thats 14 machines, no hds for three years.
-
- --
- Jim Pierce Bach. of Sci. in Applied Computer Science USM
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