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- Path: netcom.com!jsheehy
- From: jsheehy@netcom.com (John Sheehy)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <jsheehyDpvEwI.2xn@netcom.com>
- Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <0099FC9D.C9C33059@netins.net> <315a0646.3201934@news.onramp.net> <6309.6667T1410T1531@ak.planet.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 21:12:18 GMT
- Sender: jsheehy@netcom6.netcom.com
-
- In article <6309.6667T1410T1531@ak.planet.gen.nz>,
- finn <finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz> wrote:
- >O.k, here goes:
- > It is 20 times slower than the Amiga OS
-
- How did you measure this? Sounds like you're just making it up.
-
- > It is unstable
-
- Win95 has been the most stable OS I've used so far, including AmigaDOS,
- OS/2, and Linux. Don't know what you're talking about.
-
- > It is made by corparate spies (see above)
-
- It warns you that it will search the HD and lets you opt not to do it.
-
- > It doesn't multitask properly
-
- It does on my system. I wrote a little eye-candy program that busyloops
- as it writes to the screen. I ran 12 copies of it at once, and they all
- seemed to be running smoothly (albeit at about 1/12 the speed of the
- original). I think your confusion comes from the fact that IDE
- controllers use the CPU, so when a low-ram machine loads an app, it must
- both load it and swap out something else to the page file. These are
- given priority and whatever else is running loses the cpu for a bit.
-
- > It accesses the HDD every second for no reason, even with all the stuff like
- >the system agent turned off
-
- Well, that doesn't happen here. Since you wanted Win95 to fail, you
- didn't put very much effort into tweaking it.
-
- > It freezes up four times, with one second intervals, every couple of minutes
- >and that is just a start.
-
- Doesn't happen here. It is probably looking in vain for a non-existent
- network. Remove the networking, if you aren't on a network.
-
- >To prove how good M$ are at writing software, look at Amigabasic, their only
- >Amiga product ever. That is the worst implementation of Basic on the Amiga.
-
- It's also one of the oldest. Go figure...
-
- John Sheehy <jsheehy@netcom.com>
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