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- From: jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel)
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipsets
- References: <14.UUL1.3#25216@gcomm.com>
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- Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:46:32 GMT
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- Galacticomm's Demo System (demosys@gcomm.com) wrote:
- :
- : MJ> Suppose I am not interested in real-time embedded systems. Let's say I
- : MJ> need an OS which supports the most varying hardware, can handle the
- : MJ> largest, most feature-packed commercial applications, and has an
- : MJ> easy-to-use GUI. Does your real-time embedded OS qualify as a good
- : MJ> OS in my case? No, it doesn't, but Windows certainly does.
- :
- : And right here we have a biased towards "the most varying hardware"
- : which is true due to the upteem billion different ways that each individual
- : company in the PC market believe SHOULD be the standard.
- :
-
- No. I'm not talking about standards. I'm talking about different hardware
- being available because people have different needs. For example, some people
- want inexpensive SVGA, while others may want mid-range coprocessed video,
- while yet others want high-end 24-bit video. Take a look at what settling
- on a single "standard" has done to the Amiga.
-
- :
- : "Can handle the largest, most feature-packed commercial applications..."
- : which suggests that the programs are written before the OS... Since when?
- :
-
- Is this a serious comment, or are you just playing dumb?
-
- :
- : Christopher L. Kotacka Working for, but
- :
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