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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:05:13 GMT
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- John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- :
- : > Yet they would not and do not run on Peter's $199 512K Amiga with no HD,
- :
- : As several people have already posted, text editors, comms
- : programs, games, demos, MOD players, paint programs, word
- : processors, the applications most used on Amigas, WILL run on a
- : 512KB machine.
- :
-
- All these things (except MOD players, of course) also ran on a 16KB Atari
- 800. See my point yet?
-
-
- :
- : > which is what we were talking about. This discussion would have been moot
- : > several articles ago if you hadn't twisted it around.
- :
- : Ha ha! Funny, I thought it was you who introduced some irrelevant
- : crap about the Atari 800 into this thread.
- :
-
- Irrelevant?! Peter's argument was that the Amiga is superior because it can
- run useful applications in 512K, and the PC can't. My Atari 800 example was
- meant to show that it was a stupid argument. You seem to be the only one
- who didn't get it.
-
- :
- : *** John Bickers, TAP. jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz ***
- :
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- | ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
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