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- From: Johan R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F6nnblom <JRo0605@ba.ssdn.skellefte.se>?=
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 12:02:43 -0700
- Organization: Balderskolan Skelleftea
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- > try NT... Its more solid than any Amiga variation of WB.Well, it does use a _solid_ amount of RAM ;-)
- > If not, don't even try to make any snide remarks..
- > It will run circles around the Amiga OS... Like I said in other posts....It will run in circles around _itself_, causing slower speeds on a Pentium
- than WB on a bare '020...
- > Multi-tasking, mult-threading, multi-honing, multi-processor OS..
- > Who needs Amiga custom chips when you can have MULTI-PROCESSORS..It's the same thing! You know what 'Copper' means? Co-processor!
- I do look forward to WB4, though, with faster processors. But not for the OS,
- it runs fine already.
- > >What they are talking about is the fact that the Amiga can multitask properly!
- > >Windoze cannot. There is a big difference between Task Sharing and
- > >Multitasking. Multitasking means that applications perform work concurrently.
- > >Task Sharing, only the application in focus does anything!
- > Multitasking means running apps simulataneously. As I write this note, I'm
- > also downloading stock news from my ticker program, uploading files to my FTP
- > site, and doing a batch conversion of graphics all at the same time... All
- > done on Windows.But your system needs 16 times the required memory of AmyWB just to start,
- and yet what you say you are doing has been possible on the Amiga for 10 years now!
-