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- From: bthompx@es.co.nz (NeuroMancer)
- Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
- Date: 15 Mar 1996 12:19:27 GMT
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- davidh, regarding your message ' Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW' -
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- >No matter how you look at the Amiga issue, support for the machine is very
- >low. With that type of support, not many customers are going to purchase it.
-
- >The bottom line is that there really is no incentive to purchase the current
- >machines. Maybe if AT can produce an Amiga that can run IBM compatible progs
- >as well as Amiga progs (at the same or faster level of performance as IBM
- >pcs) then people might purchase them. Although, they'd have to at least match
- >the IBM prices. Too me, this seems an unlikely scenario.
-
- >I guess the Amiga is like love, "Love is blind!". I supported the machine
- >from the A1000 up until April '95 when I purchased my P90. I too hated IBM's
- >but when the Amiga fell so far behind and there seemed to be no progess
- >coming from Commodore I switched.
-
- >The initial trip through the IBM world wasn't great but now I'm happy that
- >I've switched. I do miss one thing though, the excellent multitasking
- >abilities of the Amiga OS. Nothing I have seen in a personal OS has come
- >close. The nearest OS on the PC for me is IBM's Warp OS2, and it still comes
- >no where near the performance of the Amiga OS.
-
- It is a sad reality that I (and I am sure, many of the other amiga fans)
- are slowly coming to accept. Like you, I like the amiga's OS - most of the
- other features have been exceeded on other platforms.
-
- Support for amiga os is in desperate need of a great increase. Amiga os
- _has_ to be hardware independant. All of this has to be fixed soon. If not,
- the amiga will be the Beta VCR of the ninties.
-
- To be honest, I am fast becoming comfortable with the idea the amiga
- technologies will not be able to do it. It may already be too late.
-
- Perhaps a while after everyone is using an ultra-cheap pc, well all see a
- port of amigados, or something better.
-
- Amiga Technologies has to make an amiga that beats the PC on most/all
- fronts hardware wise, and that gains in support software wise.
-
- I dare say that sooner or later, even the advanatges amiga os has will be
- superceeded. The Traditional PC hardware (inc. the x86 cpus) will one day
- die. The sooner the better. The PowerPC cpu seems to be fighting hard to
- stay in place in the face of cheap P6's. For a couple of grand though, a
- real fast machine with phenomenal support can be had, for which there are
- atleast a dozen operating systems. For such a 'small' sum of money, it
- really only has to be useful for a couple of years (to the average person).
-
- I don't like the x86 cpu's, nor the traditional pc hardware. Both are
- archaic. But a hell of a lot of tolerance can be bought with cheap prices,
- fast cpus, and widespread support...
-
-
- I hope Amiga Technologies can convince me that waiting longer will be worth
- it.
-
- ...... Brendan
-
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- "Occasionally my Universe intersects with Reality"
- - Thompson the Great, c.1996
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