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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 11 Mar 1996 11:38:00 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4i0vq8$fu2@serpens.rhein.de>
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- Richard <richgaik@slip.net> writes:
-
- >I acknowledge that we live in a Wintel world.
-
- >I have followed with great interest your comments on the stunted development of the Amiga and its
- >operating system. So I curious why does Win95 on my recently purchcased Pentium system (16 megs)
- >seem to be so sluggish compared to my old Amiga 2500? The Wintel system may have the potiental
- >to be faster but why, from my user point of view, is it such a slug?
-
- You get what you pay for.
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- Microsoft sells software in quantity, if something is not working or missing they just
- invent the next software layer that does more and hides previous mistakes. Incorporation
- of do-everything class libraries doesn't help efficiency either.
- On the other hand they can develop software much cheaper. For conventional quality software
- you probably pay about 80-90% for debugging and maintenance. With Microsoft that's probably
- only 10-20% (people may correct me, if they have precise numbers).
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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