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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 25 Feb 96 22:26:19 +0000
- Message-ID: <2216.6629T1346T989@Redrobe.demon.co.uk>
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- Hi, Benjamin Hutchings , on 23-Feb-96 05:51:14 you scribbled....
- >In article <4ghk3g$2n9@alterdial.uu.net>,
- >LawnMowerMan <mokeefe@clover.cleaf.com> wrote:
- >>video production and such you need to be able to read, play, move data and
- >>such VERY quickly. These things the lowly Amiga excelled at. The IBM and
- >>clones were slow and ponderous. Even a 120mhz Pentium has to work hard to
- ^
- Running Windows
- >>do what an 060 can do because of that feature.
-
- >Don't be so ridiculous. A 120 MHz Pentium has to work harder to run Windows
- >because Windows is an up-to-date operating system
- That's rubbish, and from the previous part of your post I guess you know it.
-
- Well I was agreeing with your post up to then...
-
- > Of course, Windows also has a lot of unpleasant kluges for DOS-
- >compatibility and so on,
- It doesnt have "lots of kludges" it RUNS ON TOP OF DOS!
- So does win95 despite what MS like to say..
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- Thats what makes it slow (by slow I mean "wasting resources", or "much slower
- than it should be" )
-
- WinNT however I'll admit is good, but not really for desktop machines..
-
- > but it also offers many features which AmigaOS lacks
- >and it is no wonder that there is a speed penalty to pay for this. As I said
- >above, multi-tasking is nothing magic and indeed Windows 95 and NT _do_ have
- >preemptive multitasking at least as good as the Amiga
- (except when '95 is running old apps).
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Oh, you mean for 90% of apps at the moment? In my experience the win95
- versions run slower and use more memory than 16bit ones...
-
- >>technology until it is finally too archaic to be any competition. I could
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >This is the case today, in case you hadn't noticed.
-
- I'll agree as far as AGA is concerned,yes
-
- >I won't flame you for the length, but simply for the absurdity of the
- >posting.
- very civil I don't think.
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- Mike
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