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- From: d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se (Jonas Ekstr|m)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Web browsers ?
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 19:31:56 GMT
- Organization: Chalmers univ. of Technology
- Message-ID: <4i4jfc$kim@nyheter.chalmers.se>
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- jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock) writes:
-
- >Jonas Ekstr|m (d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se) wrote:
- >: sagge@ts.umu.se (Mattias Sandgren) writes:
- >:
- >: [snip]
- >:
- >: >Buy a 540+ MB harddrive and at
- >: >least an 8 MB SIMM and you won't have any problems with it.
- >: >They're dirt cheap these days. The days when 512KB chip and
- >: >floppies were awesome are over..
- >:
- >: [snip]
- >:
- >: However, the reasoning above sounds a lot like Microsoft to me. Why
- >: does everything have to be so bloated? I think that a program that
- >: uses less resources always has an edge, more is left for all the other
- >: stuff you want to run. And this is true no matter how much memory
- >: or how fast a machine you have.
-
- > Be careful in this perception. Yes, it is virtually inarguable that
- > a program that uses fewer resources than its competitors is a good
- > edge to have. However, throwing out features to get that edge is
- > not such a good thing (unless there's a compelling reason, like
- > performance becomes to sluggish or cost becomes to high).
-
- Sure, more and/or better features is an argument that I can agree
- to. It's reasoning like "There are faster computers out now, therefore
- your old is not usable anymore" that I don't like.
-
- > For the features that many users want today, the days of the 512KB
- > RAM and 1 880KB floppy Amiga really are over. Even the lowly 7Mhz
- > 68000 shows its age in some of today's applications.
-
- I'm not sure about that. I want features that adds something. I could
- live without the About-requester in Ibrowse. It takes THREE seconds to
- come up on my machine. For about 2.95 seconds I thought the thing
- wasn't implemented!
-
- > Microsoft is our favorite target because they manage to get the least
- > amount of features from largest amount of resources. But other
- > operating systems and their applications have run into the same
- > problem....how best to add features to make our product competitive
- > without requiring major upgrades of our customer bases' hardware?
-
- Well, to Microsoft, PC users and now more and more Amiga users, what
- you describe above just isn't a problem because they think they have
- the solution - buy a faster computer.
-
- > A growing software technology cannot be sustained on a static hardware
- > technology.
-
- If you need to raytrace or do picture manipulation, buy a 060. But why
- shouldn't I be able to do some word processing with a modern word
- processor on my old computer. By modern I mean one that works well
- with the latest version of the OS, can be found in the shops and is
- supported, can export/import to/from other modern software, etc. I
- don't mean one that has new features that both adds something and
- requires a lot of computing power, for that I accept that an
- upgrade is necessary.
-
- Thankfully, the situation on the Amiga is nowhere as bad as it is on
- the PC, but if more and more of us accept bloated software we will be
- there eventually.
-
- Jonas
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