>> Ah, OK. Spending 20 minutes waiting for Access to load each time I 
>> wanted to work on my assignment at college must be a false memory then...
> 
>   Microsoft Access for the AmigaOS was hugely popular, I suppose.

Nope. But other database products were.

The real point is more that on a PC, just switching from one window to 
another always seemed to take forever, whereas on an Amiga it was 
instantaneous unless the machine was under heavy load.

>   "Hey, Blender for linux takes hours to create an image, while MS Paint
> is blazingly fast. Clearly Windows is much faster than Linux."

OK, forget it. This conversation is over.

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