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   "Ochal Christophe"  wrote in message   
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   > Ben van de Echte wrote:   
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   >>>"Ben van de Echte"  wrote in news:41733e55$1   
   >>>@duster.adelaide.on.net:   
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   >>>>>tpalfrey@zool.com (Terry) wrote in news:97865901218   
   >>>>>@a1a65803.sympatico.bconnected.net:   
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   >>>>>>Noel  wrote:   
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   >>>>>>>On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:15:12 +0800, "Ben van de Echte"   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>The only thing silly off-topic is your pro-linux on PC rant in an XP   
   >>>   
   >>>vs   
   >>>   
   >>>>>>>>AmigaOS advocacy thread.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>Who declared this an XP vs AmigaOS thread?  Did I miss something?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Some dork who thought he should compare a johnny come lately OS   
   >>>>>>and hardware configuration as the be all and end all when the Amiga   
   >>>>>>has been doing things far longer albeit in a different fashion.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Non sequitur and strawmen are powerful arguments until they   
   >>>>>>are challenged for what they are.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>Terry   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>As soon as XP can run in one meg of memory with no hard drive, I'll   
   >>>>>consider looking at it.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>As soon as AmigaOS can boot from a floppy disc and do what QNX can do   
   >>>>you   
   >>>>might have a leg to stand on. Until then, dream on.   
   >>>   
   >>>And what, pray tell, can QNX do that the Amiga can't, except...have no   
   >>>apps?   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Connect to the net, browse and multitask a bunch of stuff from a single   
   >> boot disk, for a start.   
   >   
   > What you would do on the Miggy (taken in account the usage of a HD disk)   
   > would be to have the disk boot, expand an archive to RAM: or RAD: (after   
   > mounting it) setup the appropriate assigns (s: t: libs: devs: c: ...) and   
   > then issue LoadWB, or just leave the system assigns on the disk & expand   
   > just the app(s) to RAM:, but that would consume to much space i think.   
      
   That is what I found. The PPP clients on the Amiga are pretty resource   
   hungry, or so it seems and without them I couldn't connect at all.   
      
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