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From: alex@xicom.UUCP (Alex Laney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Request for testers for Color X11 for Amiga
Summary: And the drivel goes on ...
Message-ID: <122@xicom.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 89 13:54:09 GMT
References: <788@boing.UUCP> <566@bnr-fos.UUCP> <1148@jimi.cs.unlv.edu>  <19506@cup.portal.com>
Organization: XICOM Ottawa,Ont. Canada
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In article <19506@cup.portal.com>, stephan@cup.portal.com (Stephen Derek Schaem) writes:
> 
>  Ok let me explain for the price.
     ^
> Amiga 2500 with 4 meg of 32bit ram, flicker fixer, 19" monitor, ethernet,
 ^
> good DMA SCSI controler, 170meg HD And the rest.
                                     ^
> A 640x400 is 6 time smaller than 'normal' display.I'm not talking about 
                     ^                             ^^^
> right now you can get a unix workstation with ethernet, scsi, 170meg HD,
  ^                       ^                     ^
> 19" sony monitor, 4 meg, 16 mhz RISC (MIPS R2000), 8 bitplanes (with 16 slot
                                                                 ^
> for video ram, and the abilitie to do real time 3D animation.
                         ^^^^^^^^
>  the machine as been selling for 15,000$ and in september under 10,000$.
   ^
>  Have you seen the show 'computer dreams'? well the demo from pixar/disney
                                             ^   ^              ^     ^
> are done on that 15,000$ machine, the minic of max headroom, the comercial
  ^^^                                   ^^^^^                      ^^^^^^^^^
>  Networking:-) Nasa replce it's cray for the big brother of that low end .
                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  what are you point of the amiga is the solution of networking with GFX
   ^        ^^^^^^^^^

And the drivel continues!!!!

There is just no point in arguing with this dolt.

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