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- From: bryan white <bwhite3@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are OS advocates so eager to be obnoxious
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 17:52:11 -0400
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- Tiitus Tamminen wrote:
- >
- > finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) wrote:
-
- [deleted stuff]
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- > ->more than 16meg? PC stands for "Personal Computer", not "Personal
- > ->Mainframe". 16 meg is a huge amount of RAM, and no OS should need
- > ->more than that to work in a decent fasion. Win95 sucks.
- >
- > You school kids will be very shocked when you will find out that many
- > modern OSes (not from MS) will _require_ 32 megabytes to work at all.
- > many of us old kids are running vax's (VMS 6.2 arguably a modern OS),
- with 20-30 simultaneous users with 16 meg of memory! This isn't running
- a pretty GUI, but is doing real work that people pay real money for.
-
- Does anyone believe that Win 95 is an elegant OS? Not saying it's not
- popular, or usable, but I think a lot of Amiga users relished the
- synergy that the Amiga's OS and hardware had/have. Somethings belong
- together, and I don't feel that with my 16 meg, Pentium 100, matrox 4
- meg, adaptec 2940 scsi. The parts I've got are really nice, I wish they
- worked together better.
-
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