| From: | Jonas Thorell |
| Date: | 1 Sep 99 at 20:28:27 |
| Subject: | RE: Future of Amiga |
Rick Hodger [mailto:rick.thehub@bigfoot.com] wrote:
>> with 8 megs of fast. Today, that's practically nothing. There's
>> a reason I have 100 megs of FAST nowadays. Memory requirement goes up as
>> the hardware and software gets better.
> No they haven't, Linux is proof of that.
Linux itself requires less memory than WindowsNT, true. The same does not
hold true for the applications. Gimp requires more memory than vi,
not surprisingly since one works with pure text and the other one
with large graphics files. And a graphics-file of 1280x1024x24 (the size of
my desktop) will require lots more memory than a 640x480x4. Unavoidable, as
much as it is unavoidable that the more services a server has to take care
of, the more resources it uses. However, servers (regardless of OS) are
computers
where the-more-the-better is of particular interest.
> And 8-16 Meg of FAST RAM for an Amiga is pretty much the average for an
>online-miggy owner. The offline average is still 2-4 Mb with 020/030.
That may be but I still claims it is way too little. I kid you not when I
say
that my Amiga has used up several megs when it has booted completely.
>> It doesn't either. Microsoft states it but it does runs on smaller sized
>> disks at well.
> Still wouldn't touch it.
Me neither, anymore. I have it running on a notebook for evaluation
purposes,
and at first it seemed better than NT4 but I just keeps getting more and
more
annoyed at it.
Oh, and I saw this on a website regarding NT/IIS and Unix website solutions:
"Until a year ago, PC Flowers & Gifts maintained its wildly successful
online flower service with UNIX Internet technology. But the high costs of
this proprietary solution and the restriction it put on their unique
business model led PC Flowers & Gifts to seek out a better solution. They
turned to Microsoft and a New York Internet Commerce provider, Exceed
Communications. Using Windows NT� Server 4.0 with Microsoft� Internet
Information Server (IIS) 4.0, Site Server, Visual InterDev� Web development
system, and other tools on the Windows NT platform, PC Flowers & Gifts and
Exceed have developed a new solution that is non-proprietary and uses
dramatically less expensive off-the-shelf software and hardware."
I hope they're joking. They can't be serious can they?
>> Or being wise enugh to have a ghost-image of it.
> But the average user is *not* going to have something they can easily back
> up onto, true a lot of PC owners now have Zip drives, for for a 3-400
> backup image you're talking 3-4 zip disks (at 7 each) and people don't
> want to do that.
Not today maybe but CD-writers are becoming more affordable all the time.
And the Zip-250 isn't all that bad either.
> Sorry, I meant PIII...mind you, I've heard of one guy over clocking his
> 333Mhz to 450Mhz using a total of four cooling fans :)
And it's still working?
>> I do know that they intend to use the 2000 kernel in the home-market
arena
>> but that it otherwise will be a stripped-down 2000. How much
>> stripped down I do not know but the GUI is more or less going to be
Internet
>> Explorer. Yup, that's right. They are that stupid.
> They proved that years ago :)
Certainly true.
/Jonas
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