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From: duncan@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Shan D Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga: Keep it.
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Date: 3 Oct 90 18:53:07 GMT
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From article <1424@gandalf.littlei.UUCP>, by griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith):
> In article <90270.194414JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu
> (JKT) writes:
>> From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
>>
> [ stuff deleted ]
>> The Amiga unquestionably outperforms the 386.  All tasks I run on both
>> are noticably slower on the 386.  More importantly, they are more
>> *difficult* on the 386.  Windows 3.0 is still kludgy, I don't care
>> what anyone says.
>    I just love it when a DOS user tells me how he now has "multitasking"
> with 3.0 - I just tell him to go format 2 disks and write a letter on a
> word processor - or shoot - just format 2 disks at once.  :-)   I was
> just talking to an engineer here at *ntel and he said something like: well,
> the more you know about computers, the less likely you are to buy *BM - and 
> the more you know about software the less likely you are to buy a clone. -
> too bad so many developers have to count on huge market  -  maybe the
> point here
> is that if your software was good to begin with - you wouldn't need a potential
> market measured in millions - 
  > 
> :Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore.


To add to the above with the words of Jerry Pournelle

Windows 3.0 is "pretty niffty" on a FAST 386 with a large hd and
extra memory.  Barely on a fast 286.  No way on a standard 286.
Word for Windows "screams" on a 33 MHz Premier 9000 is not
acceptable on a 286 or slow 386.  Ami Professional for Windows
same story forget the 286.  Now that is just one program under
Windows - what happens when you want to run several applications
even on the "fast" 386s?




Lets not even talk about OS/2 with its 4Mb memory min.


I've ran programs on my amiga 2000 that could not be run on a
"fast" Zenith 33MHz due to the memory limitations of DOS.  Oh, we
could have gotten a compiler that generated true  32 bit code for
around $500 and a dos extender for another $500 or so, or moved
to unix...  So next time I hear about a super 386 deal... FOR some of my
applications MSDOS is a joke... the extra cost of a decent
operating system that handles more than 640k chunks, multitasks
at a resonable speed without chewing up resources, and doesn't
REQUIRE a fast hard disk or 4 Mb's of memory still makes the
amiga a good soild choice for the price. But then I do more than
just wordprocess, spreadsheet, or database.