Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!unisoft!hoptoad!xanth!manes
From: manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can Amiga reach for the Sun?
Message-ID: <6586@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 88 00:36:29 GMT
References: <6526@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <41435@linus.UUCP> <20@xanadu.UUCP>
Reply-To: manes@cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <20@xanadu.UUCP> tron1@xanadu.UUCP (Kenneth Jamieson) writes:
>In article <41435@linus.UUCP>, sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>> 
>> In article <6526@xanth.cs.odu.edu> manes@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Mark Manes) writes:
>> 
>> > Changes in the software, Yep, as a programmer, I love the guru mediation
>> > alerts and completey understand them.  However, it is coarse and introduces
>> > a feeling of uncertainty in the operation of the machine.  A pretty screen
>> > would be much nicer, a screen that looks nice, but says what went wrong in
>> > english text.  If I can decode a number, why can't the computer?
>> > I did see an excellent suggestion by someone from CATS talking about 
>> > software failure messages.  He said something to the fact that it should
>> > be called "Application failure", Amen!  Amen!  Folks must be completely
>> > confident in the operation of the operating system.
>
>	It is a definate problem of the AMiga's that the OS is not stable 
>enough. Lets facee it. I love my Amiga, and between GOMF 2.2 and WB1.3 things
>HAVE gotten better. But I still get locked up once a session or so. That is 
>un-acceptable. 
>

Well, how do you know that the Operating System failed?  IN fact, I doubt it
did.  I will bet that an application failed because of either bad programming,
or user error.  I agree that I would like the OS to be stronger in this regard,
but I doubt that without a MMU this can be done.

>	I Think that with a 68020 board in it, the AMIGA can very well compete
>with the likes of SUn and others. But it needs certain things.....
>
>	1) A BIG SCREEN - HI-RES (1024x1024) display

Have you priced monitors lately?  A high resolution display is nice if you 
can afford it, and since the market that the Amiga seems to have made progress
in is Desktop Video, this display would be of little help, as we are stuck
with NTSC.        

>	2) Better color resolution... (640x400x>4096<)

I assume you mean more colors - I agree.

>	3) STABILITY

I think the OS is stable, I think making it more bullet proof is in order,
lets make this system truly "Intuitive".

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Mark D. Manes                                          "In Amiga We Trust"  
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