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- From: das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.191050.21781@usl.edu>
- Sender: anon@usl.edu (Anonymous NNTP Posting)
- Organization: University of Southwestern Louisiana
- References: <1992Dec22.075616.4682@usl.edu> <1992Dec24.060529.1751@ra.msstate.edu> <BzrLFH.7wB@NeoSoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:10:50 GMT
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- In article <BzrLFH.7wB@NeoSoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
- >
- >Let's see, to run OS/2 you need:
- >
- > a hard drive that by itself costs more than an Amiga.
- What Amiga is that?
- > 8MB of RAM that cost more than an Amiga.
- What AMiga is that?
- > an 80486 that costs more than an Amiga.
- Not only false, but what Amigais that?
- > a monitor that costs more than an Amiga.
- False, but what AMiga is that?
- > and a BIG case an power supply. At least that's cheap.
- >
- >Hasn't it occurred to you that you're talking about a computer that costs
- >several times what our Amigas cost... and you have to really scrape to find
- >advantages. There's something wrong with this picture.
-
- Do you REALLY suggest that one could get *4* Amiga for the price of an
- OS/2 machine? Peter, the AMiga you suggest is one with no HD and no
- monitor- *NOT* a useful machine. Yet you claim for the cost of items on the
- OS/2 machine that are NOT included in your hypothetical Amiga, the WHOLE
- Amiga could be gotten. Get real.
-
- You're exaggerating the HD size needed by OS/2, and the processor, and the
- monitor. The RAM is right, though.
-
- But don't you dare pretend that 4 crippled Amigas with no monitors and no
- harddrives in any way with one 486+8megs RAM+Multisync+200meg HD+OS/2 machine.
-
- >Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
- --
- Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
- "Yes Dan, I have heard of Ultima Underworld. From my point of view it
- appears to be a rather large stick which you seem to be using to beat
- everbody in this group with." -Mark Steyn, comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-