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Title: My Amiga Story...
Post by: blakespot on August 22, 2009, 01:05:30 PM
Finally did a blog post detailing what led me to grab my SAMiga 733.

http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000171.php

Hope you enjoy.




blakespot
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: cpfuture on August 22, 2009, 07:05:29 PM
Nice article and (again) great photos of your A1000. Hope to see more in-depth articles on your experiences with OS 4.1!
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: Raffaele on August 22, 2009, 08:01:06 PM
Quote from: cpfuture;520579
Nice article and (again) great photos of your A1000. Hope to see more in-depth articles on your experiences with OS 4.1!


Me too...

And perhaps blakespot said in another thread that AmigaOS 4.1 experience is not in any way resembling the confortable experience he had with MacOS X.

I.e AmigaOS 4.1 is still just hobby OS compared to MacOS X.

I hope he could explain us what AmigaOS 4.1 lacks of, and the major bugs he found, so we could pass these feedback infos to the Friedens and hope that they could remove soon some major gaps with mainstream OSes...
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: kickstart on August 22, 2009, 10:56:13 PM
The problem when people talks about OSX vs any OS is not objetive, no one says what OSX lacks of anything more usable or system errors, just good word for the beloved OSX.
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: blakespot on August 23, 2009, 12:08:29 AM
Well, I will say - the first thing I notice when I leave OS X -- and this goes for any other OS -- is the lack of Expose.  God, that's a useful thing, especially for a single-monitor setup.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/expose.html

:-)

My other complaint would be that the system freezes up - (no Guru / Grim Reaper, just freezing) a good bit.  Reboots are fast, but it's frustrating.  




blakespot
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: blakespot on August 23, 2009, 12:15:46 AM
Quote from: Raffaele;520582

And perhaps blakespot said in another thread that AmigaOS 4.1 experience is not in any way resembling the confortable experience he had with MacOS X.

I.e AmigaOS 4.1 is still just hobby OS compared to MacOS X.

Well, I've been a fan of OS X since well before it was OS X.  That is to say, I've lusted after NeXTSTEP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nextstep) since 1988.  Grabbed a 486 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2386025958/in/set-72157604338323127/) in '94 to run NeXTSTEP for Intel and even, later, grabbed a NeXTStation (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/2378242121/in/set-72157604337928535/) and an HP PA-RISC box (http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/sets/72157604303889717/) to run the OS.  And I only went back to the Mac when I heard that NeXT was taking over Apple.  

So...I'm kind of biased.  But yes, I am quite satisfied with Mac OS X.



blakespot
Title: Re: My Amiga Story...
Post by: klx300r on August 23, 2009, 01:10:24 AM
nice write up! Sam & hyperion have definitely made computing fun again for many of us :-)