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- From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Subject: Re: ......An AMIGA Owner Is My Friend
- In-Reply-To: jj8200@meibm4.cen.uiuc.edu's message of 9 Nov 92 00:50:42 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.005731.18038@grebyn.com>
- Lines: 39
- Sender: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <BxF00F.651@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BxFBoK.L4J@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 00:57:31 GMT
-
- In article <BxFBoK.L4J@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jj8200@meibm4.cen.uiuc.edu (Jacob W Janovetz) writes:
-
- > umnoor@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Nasir Ahmed Noor) writes:
- >
- >
-
- > >Well, it may seem silly to all of you but I need some material
- > >[os/2's strong points] to tell to Amiga owners.
- >
- > >When I had MS-DOS, my $4000 machine was constantly put down but I
- > >knew there was nothing to defend MS-DOS/WINdows with. Now I know
- > >that OS/2 is one of the best and most rock solid system in the
- > >market but I cant list its high points in comparison with "HIS
- > >MAJESTY" *THE* AMIGA ...
- >
- > >Just to give you an example, "they" say that Amiga does perfect
- > >multitasking with an OS which comes only on 2 floppies [compare
- > >with OS/2's 30+Meg, or 18 meg for base system]. Now I have no
- > >idea how to justify its enormous size.
-
- The Amiga does multitask at least as well as OS/2 2.0 - better
- usually, partly because of the hardware design, but mostly because it
- doesn't have to carry such baggage as "protection" and
- "compatability"...
-
- > WWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAaaahhhhhh ha ha ha ha!!!! An Amiga?!?!? AHHHh
- > ha ha ha ha... He he he... ooooh, (time passes)... Ok, I'm much
- > better now.
- >
- > All you have to do is tell them to look at how ugly the
- > "Workbench" is on the Amiga compared to a nice, faster graphics
- > environment like OS/2, then let them in on the well known fact
- > that the Amiga is a toy.
-
- First, it sounds like you haven't seen AmigaDOS since version 2.0
- came out. Nice, 3D-style rendering, much like Presentation manager.
-
- Second, be careful with those "well-known facts". It's a
- similarly well-known fact that OS/2 is a dead-end OS. :-)
- --
- Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
-