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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Re: How's this for a solution
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
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- References: <66299@hydra.gatech.EDU> <jbono.02qz@tension.UUCP> <1992Aug21.142810.29633@regina.cs.uregina.ca> <1992Aug23.142430.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
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- Message-ID: <mwm.1lu3@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 16:45:56 PST
- Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica
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- In <1992Aug23.142430.1@vax1.umkc.edu>, edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu wrote:
- > 486dx-33, I love them both. But, what makes the Amiga owners "proud, arrogant"
- > is the *Machine*.
-
- Speak for yourself.
-
- > software it self. In other words it is not the software itself that makes the
- > amiga what it is, it is the machine.
-
- Horse pucky. The same software on a different machine would still have
- all the Amiga attributes I consider important. The same machine
- running MS-DOS would be an MS-DOS machine, not an Amiga.
-
- > Do not make the mistake of reifying the software, for without the
- > machine the software could not operate.
-
- Without the software, the machine is just so much educated sand, and
- doesn't even make a good paperweight.
-
- > do on an IBM. The software does not make the machine, the machine "makes" the
- > software.
-
- The machine ties the software down to a specific level of hardware.
- To use better hardware, it takes different software. Or hadn't you
- noticed people screaming for better graphics than are currently
- available? When the software gets freed from the hardware, the Amiga
- will be _better_. It will also be easier to make the Amiga system
- software run on an Intel box.
-
- > Yes, let's face it, AmigaDos could not be ported to an Intel based
- > machine, because the machine could not handle code that the chips in the Amiga
- > work with.
-
- Considering that AmigaDOS started life on PDP-11s that were much
- slower and had nastier limits than the current Intel chips, this
- statement is obviously false.
-
- When the software catches up to the rest of the world, and we have RTG
- or DIG (which will allow the _hardware_ to catch up to the rest of the
- world), then porting the graphics software should be straightforward.
-
- > The hardware is better in the Amiga (though it has many drawbacks),
- > and windows is, compared to the Amiga, almost entirely "generated" by software
- > code, to allow it to multitask. Where as the inherent "insides" of the Amiga
- > naturally allow this and encourage it. It's about time this type of
- > OS came to the IBM.
-
- This type of OS has been available for the IBM since before there was
- an Amiga. They (like the Amiga) could never overcome the inertia of
- the big blue approved OS.
-
- <mike
-