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- In article <wturber.140.005592EC@primenet.com>, wturber@primenet.com
- (Walter (Jay) Turberville ) writes:
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- |>From: wturber@primenet.com (Walter (Jay) Turberville )
- |>Newsgroups: comp.graphics.packages.lightwave
- |>Subject: Re: If Amiga dies forever..
- |>Date: Wed, 8 Feb 1995 02:22:51 LOCAL
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- |>In article <3hdb8h$4t9@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- |>leimberger@marbls.enet.dec.com () writes:
- |>>From: leimberger@marbls.enet.dec.com ()
- |>>Subject: Re: If Amiga dies forever..
- |>>Date: 9 Feb 1995 15:10:09 GMT
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- |>>In article <3h8ue8$5vj@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, stranahan@aol.com
- |>>(Stranahan) writes:
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- |>>|>No, no, no - Amiga people bug us for versions, too. These are not
- |>>|>people
- |>>|>from the 'PC/SGI' camp, they are people changing campsites....
- |>>|>
- |>>|>
- |>>|>Lee Stranahan
- |>>|>"I am not a number, I am a free man!"
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- Walter Turberville responds to my calling PC limited!
- |>
- |>Hmmm . . . with all that you seem to not know about the PC, how do you
- |>know
- |>how limiting they are? IMHO all platforms are limiting. You just
- |>choose
- |>what limits you are willing to tolerate. I find the Amiga very
- |>limiting at
- |>times. Of course that is because I don't understand its OS and
- |>architecture
- |>nearly as well as I understand the PC's. Sometimes limits are created
- |>rather
- |>than encountered.
- Jay,
- Well actually I have lived with a 386 running OS2 ans pathworks on my
- desk at work for some time. However OS2 got wiped out so I was reduced to
- running Dos 6.xx . Any OS that can't multitask is extremly limited
- in my view. Most people I work with have 486 systems here and at home.
- I am forever hearing , I installed a sound card now my mouse won't work
- etc. The other biggie is how dos addresses memory, and it'd brain dead
- approach to addressing large drives, Then we have IDE(a curse the 4000
- caught) TWO whole devices as long as there both HD's. Then the resources
- windows requires giving you little in return other than a crippled GUI
- that still restricts you to limited naming conventions for your files.
- We don't really need to discuss the PC's lack of prowness in pushing
- animations.
- The Amiga's OS is much more robust, and the AutoConfig(trademark
- of CBM) is really tough to beat. I plan to build a 486 someday but
- it is not the highest priority because I keep getting distracted
- by things like purchasing Motion Master ect.
- Re: Sometimes Limits are created , this is true on the Amiga, rather
- than encountered however should have read rather than imposed . In this
- case by DOS.
- I did like OS2 while I had it up and running, it multitasked nicely
- and worked well with the network .
- FWTW: I often help people with config.dat problems and such here at
- work. I did not say I did not know the PC and DOS, just that compared
- to the Amiga I found it limiting.
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