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- From: fongaboo@cloud9.net (Jonathan Capra)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 10:34:29 -0500
- Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, NY, USA
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- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu>
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- Eric R. Augustine (eraugust@igate1.hac.com) wrote:
- : The point being that Amigas CAN do several things at the same time - and
- : do them all genuinely. Mac and PC Operating Systems offer an emulation of
- : this ability but don't truely do it. AmigaOS is the only OS of the bunch
- : that was built from the beginning on a multimedia architecture WITH the
- : ideas of Object Oriented Programming. The basis of ANY microsoft OS on
- : the PC is still stuck with that poor excuse "I wrote it in 6 weeks as a
- : class project" (and this is the truth) operating system. MacOS STILL has
- : Pascal based data structures in the core of the 'kernel' and still deals
- : out its files on the same 'written in two hours' (again - the truth - read
- : your history on the MacOS) filesystem.
-
- Right on brother! Even a 7.14Mhz 68000 amiga with a decent amount of ram
- will multitask better than any windoze-based machine or a mac. I get so
- impatient when I use the PowerMacs at school; I have to sit and wait for
- all the windows to redraw when I switch apps.. UGH! I like my old
- LeftAMIGA-M... toggle between apps within 1/30 sec. BAM! BAM! BAM! And
- the other day I tried to crash my 10 Meg A1200 in order to demonstrate to
- my mother what it means when her PC at work says 'Out of Memory'. I had
- to open 2 copies of DPaint, 2 copies of Brilliance, Scala, DSS8, Final
- Copy II... Finally when I opened ImageFX and tried to open a large 24-bit
- file I got an out of memory requester. Oh well I guess my demonstration
- wasn't too effective..
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