What are the advantages of Amiga...

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Fransexy_ wrote:

humppa wrote:

Try to do the same that AmigaOS do on 7 mhz 512k with linux

I think he was asking about advantages that are still relevant _today_.

errr!!! yes you cannot run quake 4, but why I need gazillions of cores, multi MHZ and tons of megabytes for only coping files, view the content of a media, or read o view simple text files or pictures?

A wait now your response will be: but today memory are cheap and computer have tons of memory.Ohh!!! yeahh!! and earth resources are unlimited  :crazy: because a resource are avaliable in quantity not means that you should waste it.And most handheld devices have limited memory and they try to do all that a desktop do

I'd like to see you use an Amiga process the 15MB RAW file my Nikon D200 spits out, or better yet the 25MB RAW from the D2X and then try and work with the resulting 60MB+ TIFF.

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Hans_ wrote:

I'm sure my Amigaone could do that no problem. Not as fast as a dual core PC for sure, but it should still be able to do the job just fine.

Hans

And where exactly can one purchase a said AmigaOne? Whilst I'm there, will I be able to purchase an AmigaOne compatible RAW coverter too? How about PhotoShop, is that availiable as well?


Back to serious mode... Yes, I guess an AmigaOne could do it, if one, there was software availiable, and two, you didn't mind waiting a good while for your filters to process. I've tried working with said files on a PowerBook G4 866MHz with 640MB RAM and it is painfully slow. Besides, I personally don't subscribe to the concept the the AmigaOne is even an Amiga, so from my point of view, my initial comments are still valid.

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Hans_ wrote:

Well my A1 looks and behaves just like an Amiga with Amiga OS4. What makes it not an Amiga? Lack of custom chips? If Commodore hadn't gone bankrupt, they would have made Amigas with PCI slots, and eventually ditched custom chips for standardised components, once they were up to Amiga's standards. All computer manufacturers were heading in that direction.

Hans

Its all just too cheesy for me, but I really disagree with the custom PPC path, it made little sense then and no sense now. Sure, you can run some native Amiga apps, but for the rest you need an emulation layer, that means, in essence, that the A1 is little different from my Athlon64, except mine is faster and I have far greater selection of hardware and software. Had they released Amiga OS4 for x86, we wouldn't be having this discussion.

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TNovosel wrote:

Sadly, this is amiga forum, but nowhere I can see any amiga user?!?!

Hey, I'm an Amiga user, but I use mine for playing games and tinkering with hardware when I feel like it. As mentioned earlier, there is no way that any Amiga out there could handle the kind of stuff I would throw at it.