VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (07/27/89)
Peter da Silva <peter@FICC.UU.NET> says: >If you can wait, you should see what Amiga MINIX is like. The >Amiga has all the advantages of the ST, plus .... Please do not make such obviously wrong statements unless you want to start a flame war. I don't, that's why I'll stop right now before my opinions get out of control :-) ;-) 8-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bitnet: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1 (will go away late '89) Volker A. Brandt UNM409@DBNRHRZ1 (soon) Angewandte Mathematik UUCP: ...!unido!DBNUAMA1.bitnet!vbrandt (Bonn, West Germany) ARPAnet: VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (07/28/89)
In article <20583@louie.udel.EDU>, VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes: > Peter da Silva <peter@FICC.UU.NET> says: > >If you can wait, you should see what Amiga MINIX is like. The > >Amiga has all the advantages of the ST, plus .... > Please do not make such obviously wrong statements unless you want to start a > flame war. I don't see how this is obviously wrong. Hardware-wise, the machines are so close to equivalent that it's a toss-up. They're both 68000-based machines with a large linear address space and bit-mapped displays. As far as MINIX is concerned, there's nothing to choose between them, save that either has advantages over the IBM-PC with its 64K segments. The rest of my posting, now that you might have reason to complain about. I understand some ST people have strong negative opinions about the Amiga operating system. But the hardware is really pretty much the same. I've had both of them, so I'm not just flaming in the wind. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "...helping make the world Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | a quote-free zone..." Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | -- hjm@cernvax.cern.ch