Hiya, Uffe
!
On 04-May-99, you wrote:
>
> Destiny rules!
>
> In a message of 04-May-99 Dirk Harlaar wrote:
>
>> So you don't agree with me at all. What I was saying is that one user
>> can not dictate the next user what to buy and why to upgrade.
>
> Well, Dirk, I know what your are saying. I'm just interpreting it in a bit
> of a provocative way :) But why can't I dictate what another user should
> use? On the PC platform it is being dictated all the time. Every new
> upgrade of Windows requires upgrading of the hardware for the OS to run
> properly. Every new game requires upgrading of the hardware for the game
> to run properly. Every new application or upgrade of an application
> requires upgrading of Windows.
This is one of the Amiga's greatest strengths. Software is written with a
less powerful processor, and smaller hard drive in mind. When you use this
software with a faster CPU, it should run that much /faster/, and therefore be
much more efficient than the comparable software on the PC. Amiga users
pride themselves on having very little bloatware, relative to their PC
friends. The Amiga OS is more compact and efficient. Smaller means less to
go wrong. It also means that Amiga users do NOT have to follow the upgrade
cycle the way that PC users do. Why is it so advantageous to having to
buy a whole new computer every two years, just so you can run the latest
revision of the operating system? To my mind, it is the software that needs
to be upgraded, not the hardware. Certainly, there reaches a point where,
no matter how tightly written an application is, it is still too slow for a
68000, 020, or 030. The Amiga, however, has resisted the absolute need for
a cpu or whole computer replacement, for the most part. And PC users claim
that their machine is the most upgradable machine in the world. Why does
'upgrade' for most of them mean 'whole computer replacement'?
>> I don't know how much money the next Amiga user has to upgrade his/her
>> system, and what I was saying was that nobody can tell the next person
>> that his processor belongs in a museum.
>
> An Amiga 500, "Gosh, wow, a A500 - still remember when I had such a
> computer", but it is definitely obsolete. It belongs in a museum. End of
> discussion. The same applies in my opinion to all 000, 010, 020 and 030
> based Amigas (perhaps also 040 based Amigas) as well as AGA-only Amigas.
Interesting that you say Ford... I have just gotten a job at Ford. Now that
I finally have a decent source of income, I have half a mind to save up and
get an Amiga of such power that I can put down your system as 'obsolete'.
Fair is fair, I guess... Until then, I'll stay with my A2K with it's
obsolete OCS, 030/25, and 16M of Ram, as it's all I can afford for the time
being. Being rich must be fun.
> I ask again. Are Amiga users the poor computer users of the world?
>
> A 020/AGA compares (if we are nice) to a 386 - I know nobody using such a
> machine today. Even 486's aren't used by anybody I know (except myself who
> only uses it for WordPerfect 5.1 for which it is well-suited). All the PC
> users I know are currently using some monster huge Pentium/K6/MMX/whatnot
> processor with huge mega monster graphics cards and huge mega monster
> sound cards. Why are the 020/AGA users still using such a obsolete
> computer?
>
> I have to admit that it often annoys me a lot when some 020/AGA user
> complains about something being slow on his computer and/or asks for some
> speed improvements. To be honest, if the sucker can't upgrade his own
> equipment to something reflecting the time we live in a bit more than a
> 020/AGA does, then he should shut up and be quite until he has upgraded.
>
If you feel that negatively about the Amiga market, and its users, the easy
solution for you is to dump your Amiga and simply get a PC. You'll be free
from the Amiga forever! Use Winlose 98 until you're blue in the face!
Support (dollar) Bill Gate$, as, even though he's worth $60 billion+, he
still needs the money. :o)
////Pakrat
Whose only MS purchase EVER was Atari Microsoft BASIC II, for his Atari
130XE. ;oP
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