cma5_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chin) (06/12/91)
I hope this is the right group to post this. I got this article from an Amiga group. From time to time, this knid of article makes me wonder why a computer system (and the OS) would achieve this kind of cult status. Seems to me there are far less PC fanatics than Amiga fanatics (in absolute numbers) although PC has a much larger user group. Do you know any PC fanatics like the one posted the following article? What are the PC fanatics' arguments? Thanks for your input. If you feel that this is not the right group to discuss this subject, please enlight me what is the right one. Chin (the following article is originally posted in comp.sys.amiga.???) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Amiga bashing Date: 11 Jun 91 20:44:07 GMT I'm getting a bit tired of all these ATTEMPT to crush the Amiga, to make it cower before the "superior" Mac OS and the "incredible" IBM graphics. A few points: 1) Most people who bash Amigas just plain don't know what they're talking about They've maybe seen an Amiga, but just arne't familiar with how powerful they are. 2) Amigas make IBMs look like toys and Macs look like 1mhz machines. No other microcomputer operating system multitasks as well as AmigaDOS. NONE. Other system just don't have the hardware support for it - they spend 3/4s the machine time processing graphics and i/o. Amigas can handle HUGE amounts of using VERY little system time. 3) The Amiga starting out as a video (game) machine, yes it did. Fine. It still has much better integration of graphics and MUCH better animation abilities than any other micro. Amigas are beaten not by these joke Mac and IBM single processor non-multitasking throwbacks, but rather by much more expensive woe processor SLOW monsters, but rather by much more expensive minicomputer workstations. Why are many universities chosing the Amiga 3000 as their primary UNIX system for students? Because it's a video game machine with low quality video? Because it's slow compared to IBMs and Macs running UNIX? I DON'T THINK SO. I could go on and on and on. So, in summary, Amiga bashers just aren't familiar (the original author's .sig)