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From: David Woolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 1999 12:40 AM
Subject: [voyager] [Off-topic Rant] Was Re: Amiga upgrades
> On 05-May-99, Robert L. Williamson said
> But this is precisely what you have done, bought "defunct technology". A
> year's time from now, and your PC will be yesterday's technology.
My Amiga has been yesterday's technology for years. It can't even be
upgraded to the state-of-the-art. At least a PC gives me a continuously-
upgradeable option -- assuming I want that (which, at the moment, I don't).
> There'll be new cards, CPUs, OSes, out there, and the manufacturers will
want you
> to buy them. They will convince you that your "super" PC is yesterday's
> technology, and you'll have to throw more money at it or a new machine to
> get with the standard.
I'm not concerned with the standard two years from now. I'm concerned with
the standard *now*. I don't have upgrade fever like so many of my friends
seem to have. Remember, my only Amiga upgrades have been a GVP
accellerator and a graphics card. I could have gone all out (had I the
money
to do so) and kept it entirely up-to-date. I know people who did.
> It all comes down to this- do you own the computer you want, or the
computer
> manufacturers want you to won?
The computer I want doesn't exist. Maybe the NG Amiga. We'll see.
> You mentioned the 5 years. Imagine if you had bought a 1994 super PC.
You'd
> have a 486 running Windows 3.1. Is that considered "state-of-the-art" by
> today's standards? No. If you'd switched then, you'd be in trouble, and
> five years down the year, I think you'll still find yourself in trouble.
And so will anybody who currently has an Amiga. I don't see the difference.
> 1) A Pentium processor will out perform an 680x0 processor (though
probably
> not a PPC). However, Windows won't out perform AmigaOS. It's not a matter
> of speed. Trust me- I've used the "latest" PC, running the "latest" OS.
All
> it means is that when they crash they crash harder.
In what way will Windows not outperform AmigaOS. Except for the control I
have over what gets done and how, I've seen very few things in AmigaOS
which I like better than equivalent things in Win98 -- and *many* things in
Win98 that I really wish were in AmigaOS. I also haven't experienced a
single crash, and I use my PC every day. I suspect most of the crash
problems
which people claim to have are because they start fiddling with things like
the
registry.
> 2) Do you /really/ need a PIII? What advantage does speed give you (other
> then getting your silicon knob out in mailing lists such as this)
No, and I will never own a machine which has one (the imbedded serial
number issue).
> Remember- inside the heart of every super
> PC like yours is that 640K-max 8088 machine that even the Apple-II could
> run rings around.
You could fool me. I have 64 Megs of RAM and it all works quite well,
thank you. Of course, I think that my Amiga makes much better use of
it's 4MB :)
> Of course, these new machines won't mean my Amiga will suddenly stop
> working. And neither will a PPC-based Amiga.
Definately not. However, lets see how much software will be available for
that PPC-based Amiga five years from now -- or repair parts, for that
matter.
>>My next major computer purchase will be ethernet
> > cards for both machines and Siamese System software -- that way I can
have
> > the best of both worlds. In the meantime, I'm waiting for the NG Amiga
to
> > arrive
>
> Hmm... it seems that you might agree with me, by slaving the PC's superior
> power to the Amiga's superior OS.
I still don't agree that AmigaOS is "superior" to Win98. It is *different*,
and severely lacking in a number of features now considered to be standard
in
other OSs. Nevertheless, I have a little hope for the next version of the
OS, and if the deficiencies are addressed, your statement will be absolutely
correct.
> > will probably become my secondary machine. For now, though, I have to
use
> > best tool for the job -- and in most cases that means a machine that
can
> > run Windows.
>
> You do realise that's an oxymoron?
Not at all. Can your Amiga run IE5? How about Excel? How about Autocad?
How about ... Well, I think you get the point. The "job" is being able to
communicate with the rest of the world. The Amiga is not up to it.
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