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- From: "TOMMY K. HWANG" <thwang@home.mysolution.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 13:31:01 -0500
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- > > So what? Good and fast Operating Systems do not exists for PC's!
- >
- > This is an important criticism actually. ALynx is the only thing we have, and
- > that looks pretty bad compared to Netscape.
-
- I do believe AMosaic too and see http://www.vapor.com/support/voyager/ for
- a vaporware...
-
-
- > > That will change now.
- >
- > How so? We certainly won't have the choice and prices that PC owners enjoy.
-
- I like to know too... But then I have already run out of Zorro slots
- on my 4000...:-(
-
- > >>: 3. Amigas are expensive
- >
- > > And so is all the hardware you need to run shit on a PC!
-
- Amigas ARE expensive, though not as expensive as a PC running a descent
- OS like Solaris or NeXT with development.
-
-
- > get one with slots! DUH! Besides, ever try to put a card in a PC? And have
- > it work?
- >
- > I don't know any PC owners who have ever needed to!
-
- ???
-
-
- > Face it, PCI is a much faster and compatible bus system that Zorro-III.
-
- Faster yes... but compatible? With respect to the Amigas, PCI
- is not much more compatible than Nubus.
-
-
- > Excuse me? What a load of shit you speak... even W3.1 had memory protection.
-
- What is memory protection? I still can't define it!
-
- > AmigaDOS is rapidly becoming outdated, lacking VM, memory protection, RTG,
- > networking, etc etc etc..
-
- Going back to my question above... What is memory protection?? VM
- is available as third party, but with increasing # of A4000 and A3000 with
- RAM capacity greater then 50MB, need for VM is delayed I believe. Also, what
- happened to all that talk about RTG before C= went down? Networking card on
- Amiga are EXPENSIVE.
-
- But one good thing about the Amiga is that great Emulation
- (Emplant/Emplantpro/SS). I did not like SS as I never got it to work, but
- EMPLANTpro is very very well done. I only wish I have one more zorro slot
- for graphics card.
-