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- From: papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 18:46:20 GMT
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- >>If I wanted a Nintendo, I would buy a Nintendo. In today's lingo a
- >>"computer" is something with a monitor, hard drive and 2MB of RAM.
- >
- >Most PC's only need 640k.
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- By my definition those are no longer viable computers in today's
- world.
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- >Hardly, it will run programs that many PC's can't handle due to the memory
- >hassles. The biggest hype around surrounds all these 486's and their fast
- >hard drives, which for the most part are still running 8 bit software and
- >can't figure out which interrupts are taken.
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- 8 bit software? Software with a 256 BYTE address space?
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