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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 12:53:13 GMT
-
- >tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >(I wrote):
- >->>As for your other examples, yes, I can e.g. play Doom95 quite well as
- >->>Win95 is running other applications in the background. Try that with
- >->>your Amiga. ;-)
- >->
- >->Done that, been there... Amiga runs 10000x nicer than any ibm when it
-
- >No, I don't think you've played Doom95 on your Amiga.
-
- Breathless runs fine though.
-
- >->Don't you wonder why I can do MORE than you can with LESS CPU and Memory?
-
- >Because you don't? Yes, that's it.
-
- Don't talk crap. He can do more, and it is because M$ are total crap, the
- reason they are still in buisness it the sheep who buy their products (like
- you).
-
- >->This may hurt to know but it is very true. IBM's with their bloated/
- >->garbage os's suck. You would think that after all this time, around 10
- >->years, that microsoft could come up with something better than windows
- >->and windows 95.
-
- >They have. Windows NT 3.51. AmigaOS is a joke compared to it, when it
- >comes to networking, multiuser, security, file system etc. Sure, you
- >can start an Amiga in 256kB, but then again, by VIC-20's standards
- >AmigaOS is truly bloated.
-
- Oh yes, and what are NTs system requirements? 16meg to load the OS puts it up
- there with mainframe OSs, and it can't compete there.
-
- >When you get a real job, don't be shocked to notice that most UNIX
- >workstations (e.g. HP) seem to mostly come with 64 megabytes of RAM
- >installed minimum. After that 16 or even 32 megabytes for WindowsNT
- >doesn't seem that much.
-
- That doesn't mean they need 64meg to load the OS, just to run loads of
- software. NT takes 1/4 of that to load the OS...
-
- >->These os's (or msdos programs) are mostly to blame for ibm's being a
- >->peice of shit like they have always been and still are.
-
- >If the "PC OS bloatedness" is due to crappy ibm hardware, then why pray
- >tell does e.g. Linux for Alpha require 8 MB to boot (x86 Linux requires
- >maybe four, probably less), and 32 megabytes for normal use (8 or 16 for
- >the x86 version)? Heck, Digital Unix seems to require 32 MB just to boot.
-
- Becuase RISC needs more ram to run. that is a fact. The PC is a CISC machine,
- and as such shouldn't have such bloated system requirements. 4meg for an OS
- is stupid, you could almost hold the complete works of shakespere in that!
-
- >Are you claiming DEC Alpha machines are piece of shit, because they need
- >more memory than x86-machines?
-
- no, they have a hardware reason for it, the x86 hasn't got one.
-
- >->- A 386 running windows can print in background? Wow.. even if it could
- >->be done, it is not something to brag about. I remember an idiot ibm user
-
- >Certainly not, but why then do all these clueless Amiga freaks keep
- >complaining "IBM compatibles cannot even print in the background,
- >nyuk nyuk!"?
-
- They had a lot of difficulty for a long time, While the Amiga was doing it
- from day one.
-
- Finn Higgins, Auckland, New Zealand.
-
- <finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz>
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