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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Questions about Amiga future
Message-ID: <2813@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Dec 87 00:58:15 GMT
References: <2908@cbmvax.UUCP> <75500003@uiucdcsp>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <75500003@uiucdcsp> schwager@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>I chuckle every time I demo my $600 micro to my computing friends...
>...window to background, window to foreground, xmodem... receive
>binary... begin download, *click* window to background, "Hey, what are
>you doin?!" "Well, this ain't no PC fer crissakes! I'm not going to sit
>and wait for that thing to finish when I can do something else (sly
>grin)... wanna see a cool demo?  Play a game, perhaps?"

 ... Let me show you a demo on *my* computer... start a Kermit upload
in one window, run the Hopalong demo in another, and on the third start
a long compile, then over to my Z29 TERMINAL and run microEMACS - one
window shows the header file, another shows the part of the file I'm
working on. Back to the first, bring up a shell, and talk with some other
PCs...

 All this on a PC/AT. But you could do the same on a regular ol' PC, with
Concurrent PC-DOS. And use all the PC software out there, and hardware,
and... Get a PC/XT w/EGA and CDOS. Multitasking and Multi-USER.  And it runs
GEM w/multitasking. And for about the same price as an Amiga 2000, you can
get a hard disk, monitor, and a barrage of PD programs you wouldn't believe.
It's the best supported hardware in existence.

- Bruce

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