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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m7o@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:35:34 PST
- References: <jbickers.0m7a@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec28.000513.1305@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: TAP
- Lines: 39
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- Quoted from <1992Dec28.000513.1305@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> by jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel):
- > 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?
-
- Somewhere in my response to Dan I referred to a "current feature
- level that is expected nowadays". This sentence of yours is pure
- hogwash.
-
- > : 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
-
- Your Atari 800 example is foolish, but because it's your argument
- you refuse to admit so. Your bald-faced lie about it being able
- to run the apps of today is just sinking you deeper into your web
- of self-deceit.
-
- > meant to show that it was a stupid argument. You seem to be the only one
- > who didn't get it.
-
- Har! You introduced a broken analogy, but true to form you'll
- stand by it, eh? No matter what lies you have to produce to back
- it up.
-
- > | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
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