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- From: "Reinhard Katzmann" <Suamor@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Why Amiga sucks and why it does't
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 09:41:00 -0500
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- TOMMY K. HWANG schrieb in comp.sys.amiga.applications ueber "Re: Why Amiga
- sucks and why it does't":
-
- [lot of nonsense deleted]
-
- > > How so? We certainly won't have the choice and prices that PC owners
- > > enjoy.
-
- And they have to repair/buy new every half a year (Statistics in several
- magazines). A good PC costs (with Monitor) at least as much as an blank
- A4000T!
-
- > I like to know too... But then I have already run out of Zorro slots
- > on my 4000...:-(
- >
- > > >>: 3. Amigas are expensive
-
- See above
-
- > Amigas ARE expensive, though not as expensive as a PC running a descent
- > OS like Solaris or NeXT with development.
- >
- No one would ever use it! The world uses Windoof did you forget ?
-
-
- > What is memory protection? I still can't define it!
-
- Memory Protection signals programs that write to illegal memory areas
- to quit. On Un*x or similar systems this usually ends the program leaving
- a (huge ;) core dump behind. And MP would require at least an MMU and
- you could run NO (repeat: NO!) existing Amiga apps.
-
- > > AmigaDOS is rapidly becoming outdated, lacking VM, memory protection,
- > > RTG,
- > > networking, etc etc etc..
-
- MP is not needed IMHO. It costs memory and make the system much slower.
- It also leads to programmer which do not pay as much attention to memory
- allocations as before. I would appreciate every programmer using Resource
- Tracking while developing his apps. VM app does exists as well as a quite
- good replacement for RTG (CyberGFX). Networking is also possible with add
- on apps. And such a computer cannnot be compared to one running Windoof.
- And beside: VM is expensive because you need a fast SCSI Adapter + HD.
-
- > networking card on
- > Amiga are EXPENSIVE.
-
- Perhabs they are but on the other hand how many Users are directly connected
- to the net ? And how many of those use an Amiga ? Count that in before
- you complain about prices.
-
- FollowUp to c.s.a.advocacy.
-
- - Reinhard Katzmann
-
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- E-Mail: suamor@student.uni-tuebingen.de
-
- One day I hope to finish my RPS Pertergrin
- Concept for Pertergin (yet in german) avalaible on Request
- Current Amiga-Project: GuideTool (GUI) V1.1BETA
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