Greetings stefcep2,
stefcep2 wrote:
Quote: "In all, its very sad to see the magic go away, regardless of the technology or the excuses. Woz was my hero ... on the MAC side. ... on the other side, Miner and Haynie are burned into my brain cells "
What negatives, exactly, have resulted in the look and feel of Macs since they changed CPU's? What is this "magic" you speak of that "has gone away"?
In this particular case, the Amiga is still far superior to current systems in hardware.
Just the basics .... until the AMD64 systems came out, the Amiga user interface was, overall, faster than the PCs.
I could swap out hard drives, while the Amiga was running, without crashing ... just now, with eSATA, one can swap only those drives.
Not to mention that ridiculous alphabet system .. c drive, d drive ... ect. ... on Amy, you could name a drive, whatever you wanted (on MAC, too). ... as well as setting which partition you wanted to boot from.
Don't forget the wonderful assigns, so that you have shortcuts to your most often paths.
Now, with respect to MAC, the biggest issue (and its minor for most) is the way the memory and hard drives are accessed to give a "smother" and more responsive human interface ... a sign of quality, in my book.
Quote:"With the increasing popularity of Linux, there may finally be a chance for basic computer design to progress past the 1960's "
I have been dabbling with Linux
I think its sad that there have been some really good propriatory OS's eg AmigaOS,BeOS, OS/2 that have failed but Linux isn't the way forward yet
I agree with you on the quality of Linux, but that has nothing to do with my hopes. I'm hoping that the widespread use of Linux allows different hardware configurations to come of age. The current wintel monopoly does not allow for much deviation of the Intel hardware design, which is a dinosaur from the 60's (IMHO) and its time that hardware evolve to at least the level of the Amiga, if not to 1990's tech levels!
Trouble is, as long as M$ dictates the OS and supports Intel as the hardware platform of choice, there will be very little advancement. As it was, AMD "strongarmed" M$ into releasing XP64 when AMD testified at M$ ant-trust hearings ... we might still be stuck with only 32bit systems, otherwise.
Chicken and the egg syndrome ... if you can't get better hardware, you won't get better software (OS) ... Linux may be the stepping stone to break that mold?
In all, I don't disagree with you at all. I'm just hoping for better! :-)
Thanks,
Alex
