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- From: "Antti J. Roppola" <ajr@henric.nric.gov.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: RISK Amiga. Will it work?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 07:43:49 GMT
- Organization: Bureau of Resource Sciences
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- qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes) wrote:
- >With regards to the inclusion of more IBM technology into the Amiga
- >design, many have said they feel it is the best thing that could happen.
- >I doubt if by using the same hardware as the opposition is enough to win
- >the lead. Let's not compare the future Amiga with the current PC's. There
-
- Yet spending $$$$$$$$ on developing something that already exists is
- a sure-fire way to lose. If it ain't broke...
-
- The principle of emergent properties is worth mentioning here. A box
- full of state-of-the-art SVGA chips et al. does not a computer make.
- The way in which you cobble these pieces together (ad-hoc like a PC or
- in some cohesive, complementary manner like an Amiga) makes all the
- different.
-
- AFAIK the first IBM PC was literally "a bunch of spare parts in a box"
- and it behaved like that.
-
- >The PC already has about 90% of the market. For many who use a computer
- >seriously for wordprocessing or spreadsheet, if it doesn't run Microsoft
- >Office, it's not worth buying.
-
- Hopefully things like the Java Office thingy announced by Lotus will
- make "MS-DOS compatibility" unimportant. Limited developer supprt
- is probably the most serious hurdles the Amiga faces. Java is one
- way of side-stepping this.
-
- > .... I know
- >that the new RISC Amiga will be CHIRP (or whatever it has been renamed
- >to) compliant but will somebody buy the RISC Amiga for the Amiga side or
- >for the NT/MAC side?
-
- Or CHRP Solaris.รก My place of employment would not even *look* at an Ami
- unless it ran Solaris. As it is, the place is full of Suns. I think
- the Amiga is flexible enough to accomodate other OS's without choking on it.
- If I could buy a reasonably price CHRP Amiga that ran Solaris, well, I'd
- but it! (It certainly beats buying a Sun *and* an Amiga)
-
- >May I stress that I am a Amiga user and hate PC's. I will always buy Amiga.
-
- I will always buy that best computer/OS I can get for my $. If Billy G.
- ever manages to release a half decent OS, I may even consider a
- PClone (and bacon may sprout feathers!).
-
- >Please feel free to comment. If I've got it all wrong, please explain it
- >to me. I hope I am!
-
- The goal posts have shifted dramatically and it seems that if we're lucky
- compliance to particular OSs/hardware will become less and less important.
- It would take a brave person to predict where this ride will end up.
- All one can say is that it's better to hop on than be left behind.
-
- Antti
- (Canberra Amiga User Society)
-
-