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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FACTS ABOUT WB2.0 (Was: Re:WB2.0 for non-A3000)
Summary: Please...
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.014403.11533@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 16 Feb 91 01:44:03 GMT
References: <5547@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> <43921@ut-emx.uucp> <5569@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
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In article <5569@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> bsyme@cs.strath.ac.uk (Brian J Syme IE88) writes:
>	Want a bet? 'fraid that's what I've been doing for months now.
>	Oh, if only Intuition was a patch on Windows 3! Even the 2.0
>	intuition looks (can't speak for the internals) poorer than W3
>	(to me anyway.)
	And what are you DOING with it? Win3 crashes terribly often, compared
to AmigaDOS, all it takes is running a rude DOS program that happens to trash
some part of the Win3 code, or assumes it owns the machine and trips up Win3.
Plus, you are still limited to MS-DOS's file naming and disk structure.
	If you think Win3 looks better than AmigaDOS 2.0 you need your eyes
checked. Windows (and PM) both look almost exactly the same as they did
back in '88 or '89. They STILL have seperate front & back gadgets, like the
Amiga used to, and most programs STILL don't have icons for them, and creating
them requires you to mess around with profile files for each program. AmigaDOS
2.0 looks very Motif'ish, in fact, if some of the gadgets imagery were only
slightly changed, it could pass for Motif, if you just looked at it.
	Does Win3 support seperate screens? No. Does it support slideable
screens (No, since it doesn't support seperate screens).
>
>	The simple fact is that "DOS" machines are improving at a
>	superb rate. They are CHEAP and FAST. There is a MASSIVE
>	market. Two years ago I wouldn't have touched a PC with a
>	barge pole, the relative pace of development has changed
>	that. The Amiga stagnated, the PC's surged...
	The PC has surged? In what way? The ONLY way that there is even a SLIGHT
advantage to the PC is the availability of VGA cards at low cost. The hardware
they plug into still sucks, is still 16-bit in at least 80% of the clones still
being made, and VGA itself is dog slow and a very poor board for doing any kind
of animation. All most PC's today are is a faster version of an XT, with almost
no use made of the more powerfull chips, and most users are still using
MS-DOS, which right there is a waste of your RAM and hard drives.
	Clones don't even make really good Unix boxes, since again, most of
them are limited to a very slow (compared to the Amiga 2000 bus) 16-bit bus,
and are almost always limited to 16 megs of RAM. As someone who SELLS these
pieces of crud as Unix boxes, I KNOW the performance is bad compared to systems
that use the Intel line of chips in non-ISA/PC compatible configurations.



			Dave