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- Subject: Re: How's this for a solution
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.142430.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: edowdy@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 20:24:30 GMT
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- WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CONTAINS REFFERENCES TO THE AMIGA AND COMPARISIONS
- BETWEEN IT AND WINDOWS. iT IS IN RESPONSE TO AN EARLIER ITEM,
- THEREFORE, IT IS AN OPINION ( and a damn fine one at that) AND SHOULD
- BE READ AS SUCH. IF YOU DON'T LIKE TO READ ABOUT THE AMIGA
- YOU MAY SAFELY SKIP THIS AND GO ON TO OTHER NEWS ITEMS.
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- In article <1992Aug21.142810.29633@regina.cs.uregina.ca>, plummer@hercules.cs.uregina.ca (Dave Plummer) writes:
- >
- > Let's be reasonable here. If you are unfamilliar with NT, fine, but it looks
- > as though it will finally emcompass most of the things that have made Amiga
- > users proud and/or arrogant for the last several years. Unfortunately (or
- > fortunately, for us multi-platform people) it goes beyond that in terms
- > of security, networking, and memory protection.
- >
- >
- > Let's face it, it would be impossible to port AmigaDOS to PC-Compatible
- > hardware, so maybe if we're luck Windows NT will someday make it to
- > Amiga hardware. But don't hold your breath.
- >
- Again you are talking software not the machine. I own an amiga in addition to a
- 486dx-33, I love them both. But, what makes the Amiga owners "proud, arrogant"
- is the *Machine*. What do you think runs the outstanding software on the Amiga?
- The Amiga of course! The hardware allows this software to be run, not the
- software it self. In other words it is not the software itself that makes the
- amiga what it is, it is the machine.
- Do not make the mistake of reifying the software, for without the
- machine the software could not operate. Why do you think games on the Amiga
- only take up a fraction of what they do on the Ibm, because the chips do not
- require nearly as much code to write the graphics, sound, animation etc as they
- do on an IBM. The software does not make the machine, the machine "makes" the
- software.
- 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. 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.
-
- Eric Dowdy
- (flame eater)
-