On 03-Aug-99 Merlyn: wrote [shortened for your convenience]
Thank you Merlyn, you write directly out of my heart!
I take your mail to reply to Uffe:
> Hi Uffe,
>
> 02-Aug-99, you wrote:
>> In a message of 02-Aug-99 Willi Burkhardt wrote:
>>> Do you think that all the Users should buy more money because the
>>> programmers are too lazy to write a bullet proof memory
>>> management? (Sorry Olli ... I don't mean it *that* rude!)
>
>> I have previously expressed my opinion in regard to upgrades. To
>> make it brief: I think people ought to upgrade their equipment so it
>> more or less reflects today and not what was appropriate five years
>> ago. So in my opinion an absolute minimum is 68040 and a GFX-card
>> and lots of memory.
>
>> ... But it has always been well-known
>> that the Amiga in general and MUI applications in particular tend to
>> become unstable in low-memory situations.
>
Uffe, in *that* case we could do two things:
- we could just upgrade our hardware. But this will lead to just lousy
programmers! The applications still will be unstable at low-memory
situtations!
or
- we coud instead urge our programmers to improve the Applications. This for
sure will help us. It will help also *you* with your 68070 and 1450MB Ram!
> Makes you wonder why we still use buggy, unstable MUI, doesn't it?
>
>
>> Well, that's my opinion. I know a lot disagree because they don't
>> want to upgrade their computer.
>> Uffe Holst
>
> Oh, I think they plan to upgrade Uffe.
>
as I told, I will upgrade in near future!
> Lets see, new OS(es) and hardware have been promised for years now
> but we have not seen anything but vaporware from a succession of
> owners of the Amiga patents.
>
> Most people are struggling along with what they have and hoping for
> some significant improvements to rescue our beloved computer.
>
YES!
> Which improvement? BEOS? PPC? WarpUP? (insert your own vaporware here)
>
> Those same people ARE Definitely going to upgrade if people keep
> telling them to upgrade because all their problems with software are
> due to Their inadequate hardware. (Been hanging around with Bill
> Gates too long? ;) )
>
YES! YES!
But here it comes:
> But you see, Uffe, they are NOT going to upgrade the Amiga. For the
> same money, abuse and fiscal irresponsibility, they can get a modern
> IBuM compat and have the latest Windoze proggys. Together with a
> computer that virtually requires you to replace it every five years
> with no option of merely upgrading.
>
And here we get from memory-management to money managemet!:
How much is a graphics card? $200? $300? And an accelerator card? $400? And
some memory? $200 New Harddisk? New Monitor????
let's make it cheap and say:
$700
How much PeeCee do you get for 700 Bucks???? ... ??
.. And I can even play Lara Croft on it!
There is also UAE. Did you know that UAE on a 225 MHz PqCx PeeCee runs as fast
as a real 68040 at 25MHz?
Uffe,
You may say: "I have xxx Megs of Ram, I don't need memory-management!" But,
never ever tell me something about *my* money-management!
Greet ...
--
Willi Burkhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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