Stephen@ucl-cs.UUCP (12/07/88)
Hi there, Monitor buzz is usually caused by the high tension curcuitry in the monitor. My usual solution is to give the monitor a hearty thump. This usually does the trick as it interupts the resonate vibration (or that's what I think it does). Reading all the "my micro is better than yours" messages on this BB I have come to the conclusion that people can't accept other peoples views. Microcomputers, as well as all other machines, are best suited to certain tasks, some more than others. The Amiga is a great games machine, it has Fairlight conpatable stereo sound and a blitter chip. It is also good at graphics, having the HAM mode. The ST is good as a general machine which is easy to program, more of a programmer's machine than the Amiga because of its more open operating system and hardware. I am writing this from the point of view of someone with six micros of my own from the Sinclair ZX81 (sorry if you have never heard of it in the USA) to a 520STM with 1meg drive. I do not, I admit, own an Amiga of any form. Of all the operating systems on micros that I have used I find QDOS on the Sinclair QL the most useful. It Multi-tasks, it is programmer friendly, and it doesn't use up much memory for its own workspace, yet it is contained on a 48K rom within the machine along with an exceptional version of BASIC that would make any of the replacement BASICs for the ST look primitive and has 8K spare! How does Atari and Commodore fill their ROMs up? The standard machine had to work well with only 128K of RAM, so the OS only takes about 40K for it's own workspace (including screen memory), what does Atari and Commodore do with all the workspace their OSs grab? (For those who don't already know, the QL is a 68008 based machine. The 68008 being a 68000 with an 8 bit data bus.) Sorry for all these rantings. Stephen Usher (MSc Computer Science student) Studying at:- University College London Dept of Computer Science London, England. E-Mail addresses (Janet Form) susher@uk.ac.ucl.cs or UCACMSU@uk.ac.ucl.euclid (international Form) susher@cs.ucl.ac.uk or UCACMSU@euclid.ucl.ac.uk Real programmers don't eat quiche, they program it! (Quiche = Quiche Lorraine = QL ..... The much maligned Sinclair super machine)