Blitz (134/640)

From:Rick Hodger
Date:31 Aug 99 at 19:26:39
Subject:Re: Future of Amiga

I watched as Jonas Thorell hammered "RE: Future of Amiga" out on their
keyboard...

> Rick Hodger wrote:

> And other platforms have suffered the same, without Microsoft or the
> OS-maker
> being responsible. A couple of years ago I could comfortably use my Amiga
> 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. 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.

>> to force people to upgrade, and you essentially
>> don't get much benefit, plus I really wouldn't want to touch an OS that
>> needs over a gigabyte of hard-disk....

> It doesn't either. Microsoft states it but it does runs on smaller sized
> disks
> at well.

Still wouldn't touch it.

>> if something went wrong software wise
>> you'd be better off just flattening the thing and starting over from
>> scratch.

> 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.

>> The Microsoft equivelent going by Windows2000 standards would
>> need to be PII 550 with 256Mb of RAM and a probably need at least a 10 Gb
> hard-disk...

> I know perfectly well that Linux is more efficient than Windows. I work
> with both
> at work, and have some experience with OpenVMS as well. Windows is number
> three
> performance-wise of those three. And as far as I know, there are no 550
> Mhz versions
> of the PII. 450, yes. I know, I'm being picky...

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 would still probably be slow, not to mention the fact that
> Windows2000
>> is amazingly unstable (just check the logfile on
>> www.windows2000test.com if you want to see for yourself, crashed 9 times
> in 2 days)

> Haven't checked that site but that number seems a little too high,
> although it
> isn't the most stable of systems. I've even managed to crash NTFS
> myself...

>> Oh, and don't you know that Microsoft plan to use the same Windows2000 to
>> sell to the home market? This is half the fun, they want to merge
>> Windows98 and Windows NT so they don't have to spend as much.

> 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 :)




Rick Hodger - Programmer for #Pagan Software#

Visit us at http://www.pagan-games.com



SimpleFTP v1.3 - Now available!

http://www.thehub.u-net.com/



ICQ:12861907 / IRCNet - #AmiGames - Rick

Team *AMIGA*



A day for firm decisions!!! Or is it??

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: blitz-list-unsubscribe@netsoc.ucd.ie
For additional commands, e-mail: blitz-list-help@netsoc.ucd.ie