Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?

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From: John Sheehy
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 02:11

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In article <4i41iu$21o@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk>,
Neil Brendan Clark <nbc@vulture.dmem.strath.ac.uk> wrote:
>Jolyon Ralph <jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>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.

I am formatting a floppy as I am typing this under Win95, and every 
character is appearing on the screen the instant I type it, including the 
echo from my internet provider.  If I didn't hear the floppy drive moving 
it's head, I wouldn't even know it's happening.  The days of PCs not 
being able to do other things while formatting a floppy are history.  
Win95, OS/2, Unix and it's clones all multitask floppy operations.

John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>

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