Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?

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From: Neil Brendan Clark
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:26

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Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
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>Because PC's have a crap floppy disk architecture.

Well, I can do floppy disk activities as well as other stuff "simultaneously"
on my work PC; of course, I'm running FreeBSD, a free UNIX clone, on it. The
problem with the PC is *not* the architecture, which is getting quite good
with PCI and so on, rather it is the poor OS implementations courtesy of
Mr. Gates that are holding it back.

-- 
"Ye'd better kiss King Willie's loof, than come by Killiecrankie-o", The Corries

                 Neil Clark, Transparent Telepresence Group
                  <http://telepresence.dmem.strath.ac.uk/>

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Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
Date: 12 Mar 1996 14:26:38 -0000
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