home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!talan
- From: talan@tension.UUCP (Dave Bicking)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: What makes OS on ROM _WORSE_ than one on disk???
- Message-ID: <talan.02wd@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 21:41:38 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 73
-
-
- >From: u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull)
- >Date: 21 Aug 92 23:56:45 GMT
-
- >daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >>>Please tell me when the Amiga gets an OS, i bought mine in 1986
- >>>and am still waiting for an OS.
-
- >Read my statement again Dave. In light of the line above it.
-
- >>You should have read the manuals. The OS is on those funny looking 3.5"
- >>roughly squarish things that fit in the front slot of the A1000.
-
- >> But you
- >>really don't want those, you want some updated ones.
-
- >should only need to open the case of a computer when the hardware changes -
- >no company would put a complete OS on rom inside the machine - except
- >maybe in the case of machines which can almost be used without disks
- >[on power up] such as the Acorn Archimedes range. Any company that put
- >a complete OS on a rom would be foolish - especially if you still needed
- >much floppy disk access to get anywhere! Also it is not good for the company
- >when they release new machines - if OS development stumbles in certain areas
- >..." - at this stage she started babbling way out of my league! She was
- >talking about strange things like digging a hole, and paying memory protection
-
- For someone who seems to have some advanced knowledge of how an OS works,
- you seem to need to learn a bit more. First of all, the "Amighty Macintosh"
- has their OS on ROM. Second, the "Almighty Windows 3.1" is coming out with
- a ROM OS. Gee, looks like you'll be reduced to using that godlike ST
- (Falcon?) OS, since it is almost the only one left on disk!
-
- I would also like to note that the Windows on ROM will take a fraction of the
- disk space of the disk version (obviously) and run considerably FASTER, and
- take LESS memory.
-
- You next infer that the Amiga ROM upgrade is vastly more expensive than a disk
- upgrade. Well, compare a $45 Amiga ROM to the $150 Windows package and the
- equally expensive OS/2. I can get DOS 5.0 from a computer store for "as
- little as" $70. Gee, ROMS are terrible, aren't they? Too bad we don't NEED
- at least 4 MEGS of ram just to run ONE process. I wish I had my OS on disk!
-
- >Anyway... I left the shop [after some parting shots from her,
- >suggesting that people like me really ought to think about the Macintosh line
- >of computers (whatever that meant!)], I was happy in spirit however because
- >I new my computer had come with `OS' on disk and not ROM!
- >Eventually I found my way to another computer store - I guessed
-
- >...To cut a long story short...
- >To my horror I found that the OS was now on ROM, and furthermore I would
- >have to pay a lot of money to add new ROMS to my machine, because it did
- >not have the right "connectors" on the mother/daugherboard. Also it
- >was possible to load the OS from disk, but I would have to break the law
- >to do it!!!?!
-
- Dude, the A1000 came out about the time the MAC 512 was in rumor stage. Do
- you even HEAR about the Mac 512? ANYWHERE? Be DAMN glad you can even RUN the
- new Amiga Dos! Try and run Windows or OS/2 on a standard AT - Any luck? When
- was the last time Apple or IBM offered a massive discount on their new models
- to people with an Apple IIgs or IBM AT? *Yeesh* Give a little service, and
- people bitch because they don't have the WORLD delivered at their feet!
-
- >+++
- >NO CARRIER
-
- ..And don't come back!!!
-
- Dave
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Dave Bicking
- Programmed Solutions, Inc.
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-