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- From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
- Subject: Re: Pournelle (and Byte) strikes again!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.161823.3877@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- References: <1992Aug18.182536.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 16:18:23 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.182536.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu> jcjust01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu (J. Crazyrat Justen) writes:
- >
- >For those of you who won't see September BYTE until October...
-
- Interesting... remarkably lucid for Jerry.
-
- >The Amiga 3000T by Jerry Pournelle
- >(*most* spelling and grammatical mistakes are my own.)
-
- Well, who's is this, then?
-
- >handle the copy-protection schemes. Some game designers wrote directly to the
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >2000's hardware and ROMs, and while Commodore tried to make the 3000T ROMs
- ~~~~
- Rather silly, no? :-)
-
- There were a few other misconceptions in there (Jerry, while trying to sound
- authorative, apparently didn't know that Rom Kickstarts have been a fact of
- life for several years, nor that the 2000 can get much of the same function-
- ality of the 3000T with a new Rom), but otherwise I'm impressed. Most of his
- negative points are valid, without being vicious, and he seemed to be willing
- to give the machine a fair shake. Hmmm... blue moon last night?
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