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- From: jung@osse.nrl.navy.mil (Greg Jung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 21:51:42 GMT
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- In article <3211.6575T218T228@insync.net>, lee@insync.net (Lee) writes:
- |>>David Nelson, regarding your message ' Re: Amiga promotion in USA.' -
- |>
- |>>>W95 is much more memory-efficient than W3.x, as well as being faster.
- |>>>You can run more programs faster in the same amount of memory.
- this needn't stay in, we all agree its not true wrt speed.
- |>
- |>>Why is it that os/2 is a better os for the pc than win95 in most every way
- |>>(except application support) ? It runs on the same hardware, yet multitasks
- |>>better, handles ram better, is faster, and even runs windows programs
- |>>faster than windows ? [I have been told by PC mates].
- |>
- |> Being in the PC Consulting business, I know this first hand. Lan-Server is
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ No business or credential you
- quote here gets you a status, bud. "PC consultant" less so. "Lan-Server"
- I know nothing about, but what does that have to do with anything amiga?
- |>a fate worse than death. Win95 has built in networking that is easy as Amiga
- |>plug and play. They also have the concept of plug and play beginning.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- plug and play is not a concept, it is a cooperative system that is
- geared towards the latest microsoft operating system. Code is developed
- specific to the pentium or x86 or whatever and the OS recieves it.
- Somebody clarify this, because this is just my admittedly fuzzy
- understanding. As such, it is an exclusionary device as the standard
- is controlled by microsoft.
- |>each time> Finding OS/2 drivers for most hardware is harder than finding
- |>Amiga business software!
- This is a circular argument. You won't get anywhere with that here.
- "We are borg. You will assimilate. There aren't any drivers, elsewhere"
- |> If you think of OS/2 as a sucess story, then
- It is rather miraculous that IBM was able to rescue that OS
- from microsoft and do anything for it.
- |>
- |>>Reading a bit about microslop, how they started, how they do bussiness,
- |>>etc, will convince you like it did me. Read 'Accidental Empires' (book;
- |>>forget the author name. I'll Find out if your real keen). This is a very
- |>>interesting book on the computer industry.. Lets out a few things old billy
- |>>hopes people have forgotten, too..
- |>
- |> The programming may not be the tightest, but the way they do business is
- |>the best. They try to make money, and do that quite well.
- Its nice to not be on the other end of that "making money".
- We voluntarily give money towards products that incrementally improve
- our system, as distinct from being forced to pay out bucks just to
- maintain functionality.
- |>* Lee Sharp *
- Greg Jung
-