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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 22:16:58 GMT
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- Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- : mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin) writes:
- :
- : >: Of course you can be more productive with Word, but not 100 times as
- : >: productive.
- :
- : >more. Besides, who is to say that you're not being 100x more productive
- : >with a P100 than with an XT? There are plenty of things that you simply
- : >could not do on an XT that you can do on a P100.
- :
- : Like entering text, formatting it and printing it ?
-
- Hate to break this to you Michael, but there's more to computing than
- word processors. But if you really want to talk about word processors,
- then you're still wrong. :) There are things that you can do in Word
- that you simply could not do in a word processor on an XT.
-
- : >: >There is plenty of software that requires an MMU.
- : >: Name two.
- :
- : >I named thousands doofus. See below:
- :
- : Smart language you use. You named "Linux or NetBSD", i.e. something that
- : noone would buy an Amiga for because the same can be had better with
- : cheap PC hardware.
-
- Once again Michael, you're misquoting me... I did NOT name "Linux or
- NetBSD", I named "any software which runs under Linux or NetBSD". Just
- what is wrong with that? No, I wouldn't buy an Amiga to run NetBSD,
- but now that I have an Amiga, I WOULD like to be able to run it. I'd
- rather not trade in my Amiga for a Pentium though just because I don't
- have an MMU. Why is it so hard to believe that a person might want
- to be able to run both NetBSD AND AmigaOS?
-
- : >Not to mention dev tools like Enforcer.
- :
- : So everyone is suddenly a developer ?
-
- I'm getting really pissed off by Amiga users saying "Not everybody needs
- this" and "Not everybody needs that". How short-sighted can a group
- of people be? This is phenomenal... A computer should be accomodating
- to as many people as possible. An MMU is going to come in handy for
- a hefty percentage of users, and it's a trivial thing to add.
-
- Read this slowly Michael:
- No, not everybody is a developer. However, every Amiga developer does
- need to buy an Amiga. Most Amiga developers will be using 1200s these
- days (ie the base model). Every time your Amiga crashes, you can think
- to yourself -- Hmm... You know, if every Amiga came standard with an
- MMU, this crash might not have happend.
-
- : >: Starters do not run Linux or NetBSD and they rarely run it on Amiga
- : >: hardware and noone runs it on base machines.
- :
- : >Of course they don't run it on base Amigas! It's impossible!
- :
- : It's impossible not only because of the missing CPU. You want a faster CPU,
- : more memory and much more disk space.
-
- You don't need a faster CPU, although it certainly is better. Memory and
- disk space are a helluva lot more simple to add than a new CPU.
-
- : >I personally know of a few people who own base 1200s and wanted to install
- : >NetBSD
- :
- : Even with an MMU you couldn't install NetBSD on a base 1200. Mainly because
- : it doesn't have a hard drive and no fast memory. You need to buy a hard
- : drive (easy) and memory (which almost always comes with an accelerator CPU
- : that _does_ have an MMU).
-
- In North America 1200s were never available without hard drives (at least
- I don't think they were -- I know that my local shop didn't have any
- without hard drives. I think there was an option of a 40Meg and an 80Meg).
- Why do you need an accelerator with an MMU in order to get more RAM?
-
- Anyways, whatever the case was with the 1200, this issue was originally
- on the MMU-less "Walker". The Walker has the CPU power for things like
- NetBSD, as well as the RAM (and of course hard drive). Leaving out
- the MMU is a mistake IMO. Actually, only offering one processor is
- the real mistake...
-
- : >: >and there is a lot of
- : >: >software which can benefit from using virtual memory.
- : >:
- : >: Name two.
- :
- : >Okay, how about ANY OS friendly program which is not time critical and
- : >requires memory?
- :
- : You should _name_ those apps.
-
- Christ. Have you ever used an Amiga!? Ever HEARD of one before this
- discussion!? Surely you can name an app or two yourself? Just to
- satisfy you though, I'll give in. How about PageStream, WordWorth,
- ADPro, VistaPro, ShapeShifter, PhotoGenics, Imagine.....[...].......
- When I said "ANY OS friendly program which is not time critical and
- requires memory", what I meant was "ANY OS friendly program which is
- not time critical and requires memory". I don't know of a simpler
- way of saying it Mike. If you keep pestering me though, then I
- suppose I could try to dumb it up for you, but I think if you just
- read it over enough times even you ought to be able to figure it out
- for yourself.
-
- : >Anybody who has never got an "Out of Memory" box thrown in their face
- : >obviously isn't much of an Amiga user,
- :
- : ... or has enough memory for the tasks he does.
-
- Sure, if you've got an expansion board with an extra 32Megs or so...
- That would *probably* be enough for just about everything...
- My computer is maxed out at 18Megs right now, and I see that requestor
- way too often...
-
- : >: They could do this even faster if someone wrote a real display driver.
- :
- : >Fine, if you or AT wants to include some "real display driver"s for
- : >Emplant and SS, then I'll drop that as part of the MMU argument.
- :
- : Why don't you ask the SS author?
-
- That would be rather pointless don't you think? Christian and Jim are
- both perfectly aware that the graphics updates are slow without a
- graphics card. I think if they could make them faster they would.
- IMO it's a stupid thing to write a software author and say "Hey --
- why don't you make it faster?"
-
- : >Of course there are still the many other reasons...
- :
- : You still didn't name one.
-
- Let's hear it for Mr. Short-term Memory...
-
- Virtual Memory, Unix, Enforcer. Write that down this time so that
- I don't have to explain it all a 7th time.
-
- : >Why do you think? Because an 030/25 is a slow, low-end piece of
- : >trash. I speak from experience... I'm using one right now...
- :
- : Sounds rather as if you had an inferiority complex.
-
- No, it's just that I obviously use my computer for a lot more things
- than you do, and have adapted a better sense of how fast/slow it
- is at doing different tasks. My computer isn't too slow because
- I want to be able to brag to my P133 owning friends that I have
- a big fat 50Mhz 060. My computer is too slow, because just about
- everything I do on it could be faster, and yes -- faster == better.
-
- : >: > I consider you a myth, now are you going to go away? No, I didn't
- : >: > think so.
- : >: That's no answer.
- :
- : >Thank you for not quoting the "question" which in fact wasn't even a
- : >question. That's bordering on a misquote...
- :
- : And that's truly some attempt to distract.
-
- No Mike, it was an attempt to publically show that are misquoting me,
- and that I don't appreciate it. If you can't actually contribute to
- a discussion without having to misquote people, then you (and everybody
- else) would just be better off if you'd simply stay out of it.
- Believe me Michael, I wouldn't deliberately try to distract you. I've
- come to realize that you have a hard enough time following along as it
- is.
-
- : >You claimed that you consider the fact that 1200 users would like to be
- : >able to run SS to be a myth. My point was that just because you're
- : >too ignorant to see the truth, doesn't make the truth any less truthfull.
- :
- : So I am ignorant because you claim something and I don't believe that ?
-
- It's not a fact because I claimed it is. It's a fact because there
- ARE 1200 owners out there running ShapeShifter. Go ahead and ask
- around...
-
- : Are you the holder of the ultimate truth ? Why didn't you stop the war
- : in Bosnia earlier then ?
-
- It's not the truth just because I happen to know that it is true.
- Now every time somebody posts a fact, you're going to flame them
- for thinking that they're a "know-it-all"? Well, okay, if that's
- all you've got, then I guess that's all you've got...
-
- : >I don't know exact prices, but I don't think that even a full 040 or
- : >060 would cost $300. Let alone a f#?king MMU for an 030...
- :
- : That's your problem. If AT _buys_ 040s or 060s at some price that's not
- : what the end user has to pay for it and you wouldn't be satisfied with
- : just the CPU. They and especially the dealers have to make money and
- : any price difference for the parts gives at least thrice that for the
- : end-user.
-
- Yeah, but so what? 3 x $30 != $300.
-
- : BTW, a 060 does come close to $300 just for the chip.
-
- Exactly. Thank you for telling yourself that you're wrong, it saves
- me the hassle of doing it again.
-
- Reg Martin
-