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- From: rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are OS advocates so eager to be obnoxious
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 16:58:18 GMT
- Organization: UB
- Message-ID: <4l8gna$shr@azure.acsu.buffalo.edu>
- References: <316dd296.14389582@news.onramp.net> <1426.6679T907T1839@ak.planet.gen.nz> <vCddx0kkAASe088yn@spider.compart.fi> <3176B98B.F2B@ix.netcom.com>
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- In article <3176B98B.F2B@ix.netcom.com>,
- bryan white <bwhite3@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
- >Tiitus Tamminen wrote:
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- >> finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) wrote:
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- >[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.
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- >> 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.
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- > 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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- The reason there's little 'synergy' on your computer is that
- Windows sucks. Please go back and read D Haynie's article on
- hardware. There's now hardware coming out that does most of
- what the old Amiga chips did and they do it for cheaper; additionally,
- they do things the amiga chips never could do. Why reinvent a
- costly wheel? I think a lot of people are mistaking an elegant
- OS for hardware. An amiga PC with a modern CPU and a decent
- gfx card will have tons of synergy.
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- Ross.
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