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van phan (van-phan@ix.netcom.com) wrote:

: Great; Now we have two LOSERS joint force. 
: What does that equal.
:        " EXTINCT"
: Van

Are you one of these "educated Americans" I keep hearing about?

Especially from a guy who quotes 30+ lines of text only to insert roughly 
one line of his own mental clunkerings..I mean, if you want to talk about
"extinct", lets play a game:


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	A) A Standard PC today, 1995.    B) A Standard Amiga from 10 years ago:

	 Can only use 8.3 filenames.       30 charecter filenames, with the 
         Considers a little block          ability to tag on even longer file
         you can scoot around a 80x25      comments. Fully pre-emptively 
         screen to be a "mouse pointer"    multitasking, 32-bit pure, built
	 The only computer left in the     around a mainframe OS. Completely
	 world which BEEPS like an         firmware upgradable GUI. Includes
         Apple ][ from 1979. The only      a sophisticated array of custom
         computer left in existance        chips which alleviate the CPU from
         which has a seperate "Text"       tasks such as graphics handling,
         and "Graphics" mode..MS-DOS,      sound output and control, I/O,
         the backbone of almost all        hard disk & floppy access, etc.
         PCs, a cryptic, horribly          ~21 Khz 4-channel digital stereo 
         outmoded and obsolete,            sound, not cheezy FM or wavetable 
         limited, user-hostile command     synthesis common to antique 
         interface from the 1970's.        computers like the Atari ST,
         just like the Atari 800XL,        Apple ][gs, and Commodre 64. A
         Apple ][, and Commodore 64!       fast, responsive GUI with low
         The only computer on the          memory overhead, capable of
         market which can only read        performing heavy multitasking
         its own-format disks--nobody      within comparably small amounts
         elses. A 133 Mhz Pentium with     of RAM due to a huge, standardozed
         32 MB of RAM still flickers       array of firmware libraries.
         the mousepointer when moving.     AmigaDOS applications are fast,
         Considers "color graphics"        tightly coded, and standardized
         to be an expansion option.        in their presentation. Amiga
         Considers anything beyond a       programmers need not "reinvent
         1-bit internal squaker to be      the wheel" in their code, for
         an "advanced sound board"..       such tasks as graphics redraws,
         Considers stereo sound a luxury.  file requester windows, etc, 
         No widespread firmware support.   which keeps executable file size
         A whopping 64K ROM! Considers     at small, as opposed to fat, slow,
         a mouse to be an expansion        bloated applications found on the
         option as well. Has to be hacked  PC. The Amiga's ROM in 1985 was
         and kludged into using large      256K--Over 4X as large as PC ROM's
         hard disks. Never inteded to      are today. Current Amiga ROM's are
         even use color graphics. Never    16 times as large. Can read PC and
         inteded to use a mouse. Never     Macintosh formatted disks, as well
         designed to handle stereo sound,  as its own format (AmigaDOS, 880K)
         let alone anything beyond a tiny  Mice are standard equiptment, as
         internal beeper. The best PC's    is sprite/blitter hardware which 
         out on the market still cannot    allows anything from mousepointers
         display animations smoothly,      to entire SCREENS of graphics to 
         (Let alone ones with SOUND!)      be moved rapidly and smoothly.
         without looking like cartoon      Due to the nature of the Amiga's
         flipbooks, even with MPEG,        custom chips and internal design,
         even when played directly out     intermixing sound with animation
         of RAM, even when spooled off     is effortless, simple, and 100%
         a hard disk.                      glitch-free. 


It may very well BE a VHS versus Beta argument. However, here's the point:
YOUR PC IS OOOLD. There it is. You don't need to go to a museum to see
dinosaurs anymore. Any CompUSA store will do.

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