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- From: monster@mbear.apana.org.au (Martin Ozolins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
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- References: <jbickers.0m9p@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec29.160521.4069@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 08:21:13 PST
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- In article <1992Dec29.160521.4069@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- > John Bickers (jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz) wrote:
- > :
- > : > So is your claim that a 512K Amiga can run "current feature level"
- > : > applications. So my analogy holds perfectly, while you're just whining.
- > :
- > : Absurd. A 512KB Amiga can and does run such applications.
- > :
- >
- > Right. You think a 512KB Amiga (with no virtual memory, of course), could
- > ever run something like Word? FrameMaker? Quicken? Improv? Paradox?
- > Falcon 3? Ultima Underworld? Think again, denizen.
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- Sure, if they were properly written for the amiga.
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- Ever heard of overlays ? where only the code that is needed is loaded
- into memory ?
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