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In article <83fm9ha@lynx.unm.edu>, jfreter@triton.unm.edu (The Myth) writes:

> And, in the US, pc are used mostly for serious work.  If people want to 
> play games, they buy Amiga's, Nintendo's, and Mac's as well as low-end
> (i.e. 386sx/286 ) pcs.  The pc's are used some for games, but the pc's
> really aren't at heart game machines.  Most have only an internal speaker,
> no game port as standard equipment.  Compared to the Amiga's that have 
> pretty good sound, decent graphics/animation it is no wonder that pc's
> aren't used for games here.

In Europe that was the case five years ago. Now nearly no PC is sold
without sound, graphics, joystick and mouse. (Windows included.)
Amigas, ST, are 'OUT' here. The game port is standard equipment,
see: Multi I/O Card... (Don't they know that in the US...) :-)
Serious work is done on MULTITASKING / MULTIUSER systems. What else ?

Your's
Jan.

PS: I'm sitting in front of a SPARC...

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