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- From: gene_heskett@wvlink.mpl.com (Gene Heskett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 31 Mar 96 00:16:43 +0500
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- TT> "Shane R. Monroe" <darkuni@nwinternet.com> wrote:
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- TT> ->PROS: The best damn OS every created (3.1).
-
- TT> Don't kid yourself. Where's the memory protection or the multiuser
- TT> support? FFS pales in comparison to e.g. NTFS. I personally find e.g.
- TT> HPUX/VUE and WindowsNT 3.51 much more powerful OSes.
-
- In real time? Get real...
-
- TT> ->The ONLY machine that still truly multitasks for under $10K.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Bull Shit! AmigaDos did not invent mutlitasking, and neither did os9,
- but I have an os9 machine on the next desk that *still* multitasks
- far smoother than AmigaDos, or a UNIX box at the station. And having
- installed 2 copies of Win95, I sure as hell wouldn't call that a
- multitasking OS. No OS can qualify in my book till it is the *sole*
- judge of whether that task gets any more time to run. Win95 can
- still be locked up, probably by stuffs that are in fact furnished by
- microslop on the cd!
-
- OS9 BTW, does have the protected, segmented memory amigados lacks.
- Out of the 2 megs in mine, only 64k is available to the cpu at any
- one time. That alone makes it about 10x as bulletproof from errant
- programs as amigados will ever be without that re-write everybody
- keeps talking about so wishfully. I recently heard of one thats
- running a BBS in chicago which has *not* been rebooted in almost 3
- years. That folks, is the UNIX style of dependability.
-
- TT> Nope, sorry, not true. A 386sx machine truly multitasks with e.g.
- TT> Linux or any other Unix clone, for much under $10k.
-
- This os9 machine, I have maybe $1500 invested in it over the last 11
- years! What is it? A TRS-80 Color Computer 3, with 3 floppies, 130
- meg scsi hard drive, two monitors, a modem and all the other
- accoutriments of a *real* computer. While I like and use the heck
- outta my miggy too, I'm equally tired of miggy owners claiming their
- amiga invented all three members of the bottled beer, sliced bread and
- instant sex trilogy.
-
- TT> ->see what I mean). The absolute BEST shareware market for any system.
- TT> ->You can own an Amiga and never buy commercial software and STILL have a
- TT> ->great system.
-
- TT> True for PC as well. I don't see Linux users buying many commercial
- TT> applications, yet they have great systems. And both Windows and
- TT> Warp have a great shareware market as well.
-
- TT> What you probably meant to say was that Amiga doesn't have much of a
- TT> commercial market to talk about. ;-)
-
- Presently very true, due partly to way the hell and gone too much
- foot dragging on the part of AT and the Developers kits. Why do the
- bean counters always think they need to keep such things so damned
- private? Are you making any money by keeping it secret, AT? Whats
- that? I can't hear you... Oh, "no", thats what I thought.
-
- After all, without software to drive the need for machines, theres no
- machines bought. And when theres no machines sold, there sure as hell
- isn't going to be any commercial software written by folks who like
- to eat at the same time they code.
-
- So what do we have? A thriving jousting match between the shareware
- writers trying to make beer money on keyfiles, and hackers too damned
- cheap to send the $20 for a keyfile so it all works. Too often the
- hackers win, but there goes yet another talented person off to
- intelmaniacy just to pay the rent. We get what we deserve in most
- cases, but AT is not IMHO, doing one damned thing to slow the
- desertion rate.
-
- Soapbox mode off, sorry for the explicite language.
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