> On 24-Feb-00,* Sealey, M.*, of Planet Eros, wrote these Wise Words:
> >> ... It was from a German source. IIRC, the numbers
> >> bandied about were only aboue 3000 world wide. To tell you
> >> the truth, that news really depressed me.
> >
> > I sincerely hope you didn't beleive it: pre-order sales of
> > OS3.5 hit around 8,000 anyway, and IIRC they're pushing
> > 20,000 at the moment: there are probably a few hundred sitting
> > in suppliers' warehouses, but they CERTAINLY sold more than
> > 3,000 to customers.
>
> What did they need to encourage them to go for the next level?
Erm.. 25,000? But it was a fake figure, they looked eager to do
it anyway: perhaps because funding wouldn't be a problem by the
time they would have started it? :)
> > > My family is REALLY pushing that I "get a real computer".
> >
> > Then get one. Buying a Pentium III isn't going to break your
> > Amiga the instant you turn it on..
>
> No one implied or stated that it would. Fact is, one usually
> only has "x" amount of time, and I hate to spend time on a
> machine I don't like.
I quite like *my* Windows Box here on my desk. It's nippy, works
well, hardly ever crashes (ah, the benefits of being a technician ;)
and runs all the decent software I can get my hands on.
If you take CARE of a machine, it'll take care of you. The same
applies to Amigas, mind, this isn't purely a Windows thing. The
less hacks and patches and VisualBasic-coded shite you run, the
more stable it'll get.
Go for one with two (medium-sized) hard disks, it'll be better ;)
> I choose to have the Evil Empire be the one to go.
:)
> I like the friendliness of most Amiga people, yourself excepted
> of course. : )))
LOL?
> I teach MAC usage at school, and even though I like the new
> OS9, and the OS8.x iMacs are not bad either, I just cannot
> stand something about the other systems. Maybe it is the
> quirky way the Amiga does things compared to them, but I
> get find the Amiga way of doing things a lot more intuitive
> to my way of thinking. I prefer to stick with it.
Couldn't you go buy an iMac then? Go get MacOS 9 and Office 98
if it's compatibility you want, and Internet Explorer 5 for the
Mac looks like it's gonna rock the house. The PC is obselete and
dying, and half of Microsoft is making it happen, funnily
enough :)
In the mean time, a CSS-enabled Voyager will tide me over until
I get my pre-ordered BoXeR, and my Neutrino box (i.e. *my*
Neutrino box, not just a box I have that runs Neutrino :)
Just where *is* that update, Olli? :)
--
Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester
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