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- From: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Chris Herborth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Message-ID: <H.ea.DWZmerM0cNc@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca>
- Organization: InterZONE Design
- Subject: Re: ADVOCACY: Re: PC VS ST
- References: <727425006.AA01137@contrast.wlink.nl> <C16Es8.G22@ecf.toronto.edu>
- Reply-To: cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
- X-Software: HERMES GUS 1.04 Rev. Sep 5 1992
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:31:12 EST
- Lines: 27
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- In <C16Es8.G22@ecf.toronto.edu>, AL RASHID SHAHIR writes:
- > Hey are you a jerk, or what? I didn't know whether he meant 8086, 8088, 80286
- > or that he really thought there was a 80086.
-
- Ok, I'll admit it. Writing '000 and '086 in a message was a trap to
- show how little you know about PC clones.
-
- It worked.
-
- > How many applications have you currently used? How would I know how many
- > will use it? What use is a 486 running at 50 Mhz when you're word processing?
-
- Weeelll, lessee. I'd be using my word processor (AmiPro for OS/2 in all
- likelyhood), ray tracing a nice 800x600x24-bit image, downloading files
- with zmodem or using UUCP to get my news/mail, unpacking files or my
- news/mail packets, backing up changed files to tape (since OS/2 can
- multitask device I/O nicely, unlike Windows), and probably a few other
- neat things (like running AfterDark and some neat graphics toys like
- Neko).
-
- You still haven't said what use that DSP is going to be in any normal
- applications.
-
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- Chris Herborth
- cherborth@semprini.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
-