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- From: sschaem@teleport.com (Stephan Schaem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: 8 Apr 1996 14:45:28 GMT
- Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : Thomas Karlsen (sledge@algonet.se) wrote:
-
- : : "Missing floating point co-processor. REBOOT" tells it all.
-
- : Well, it does say a lot about YOU. :-) It says you are probably
- : trying to run 68K programs requiring a fpu that fail to check before
- : hand if one is present before trying to send instructions to it.
-
- What I got from this single line is is "REBOOT"... The traped the
- illegal inst on that machine, cannot emulate it, so ask the user
- to reboot?!?!
-
- : Henderson's Theory Of Mac Haters: All people that don't like Macs fall
- : into two categories: Mac illiterates that don't know much about them;
- : and super-geeks that could never be happy with anything short of Unix. :-)
-
- Mac haters are usually computer literate... people that know computers.
- Mac users are people that are scared of computers, or people that are
- 'forced' to get macs.
-
- Working in a single mac app at a time is ok, as soon as you try to do
- anything more it become hell for anyone that want to be productiv. And
- managing files, disk is a plain horror.
-
- : And, unfortunately, the vast majority fall into the first category.
- : The Mac tries to be user friendly, but the user does need to know a
- : little to productively use it. Tell me, Thomas--if I tried to run a
- : program on an Amiga that directly writes to hardware that any marginally
- : technically literate Amiga user knows isn't there, would it be fair for
- : me to blame the Amiga if it crashes?
-
- The Mac is too user friendly, and think people are so dum that it doesn't
- need to be responsive/quick to please... just little extra like bubbles
- and zooming window should please the monkeys using them....
-
- The amiga will give a similare result as the mac... it bad too in that
- respect. The amiga OS expect aplication to be perfect, and check for
- everything themeself.
-
- : This brings up an important secondary issue: WHAT ILLITERATE BABOON
- : CAN'T CHECK FOR A PIECE OF HARDWARE BEFORE ADDRESSING IT??? For the love
- : of god, it would only take a couple minutes to write the extra code and
- : would keep stupid things like this from happening. Personal computers
- : are not Nintendos--you can't just assume what's there.
-
- Probably he found it alot faster to write in the doc/readme "require a
- 6888x math coprocessor" then looking in the doc to find how to dectect
- if the machine the code will run on support the 6888x inst.
- If the OS run the code, trap the illegal inst , tell the user, kill the
- programm it will save 5-10min for every programmer that want to do this.
-
- : There are plenty of competent programmers out there. Unfortunately, not
- : many of them are good DESIGNERS, and that's equally important. A
- : trained chimp stoned out of his mind can write a program, but the
- : alleged best and brightest seem to have a great deal of trouble making
- : programs that are truly well designed--user friendly and functional.
-
- Apple should hire alot of 'trained stoned chimps', maybe it would raise
- the usability of the OS vs trying to be an overly "slow cartoonish
- mothery protective" system.
-
- But I guess macs are good for elementary school and such as kids first
- computer, just hope they wont get frustrated from them :) And to avoid
- a desaster better tell them that they are real computer out there!
-
- Stephan
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