Atheist wrote:
bloodline wrote:
We should consider the Amigas' strengths and capitalise on them. They are;-
Efficient AmigaOS, small, fast and adequate.
Antiquated, unstable, insecure, single user, nonPOSIX and no modern software.
Hi bloodline,
Antiquated? Can you explain that?
The Entire architecture is based on 80's technology, a few examples;
1. The User interface is based on clipped layers... Modern UIs are based upon 3D surfaces.
2. The Graphics subsystem is based on a palette concept, at 4:3 ratio at very low resolutions and bit mapped gfx... Mondern GFX systems are based on Hi/True Colour, at industry standard ratios, wide screen and there is a move to resolution independent vector gfx.
3. The Amiga Audio subsystem (AHI too) is totally unsuited to modern professional requirements... please read up on "Core Audio" as an example a modern system...
4. The programming architecture is totally outdated... a modern system is object oriented, the advantages of OOP in system programming are too numerous to list here... but, read up on OSX's "Cocoa Framework" and "NeXTStep" to see how modern systems work.
Single user? YES single user!!! Who brain washed you?
I like multiuser systems, I can have a public account, for daily use, a private account for my sensitive work and a root account for adjusting system settings. Each account is totally encrypted. if I loose my Laptop or it gets stolen the data on the private account would be safe. Keeping the Root account secure means no malicious programs/viruses and user can adjust my settings or install anything. it keeps my machine safe and secure.
I also have a separate account for my brothers to use when they visit, they can mess it up, break it , have the settings anyway they like... install any crap they like, and all their games etc... and it it all nicely contained in that account... should, I wish I could delete it on one go.
I can also log into my laptop while one account it in action, as another user and run it as two separate machines... remotely or locally...
Because bill gates SAYS "multi-user is da bomb"
Single user is WRONG/FORBIDDEN/BLASPHEMY? I must have missed that memo.
I've never run any Windows system as Multiuser... so no... my first multiuser system was Linux... where my girlfriend and myself had two separate accounts. Now I run MacOS OSX.
NonPosix? Why do I want "posix", okay, what is "posix" and why do I need it? Never needed it before. (At least I don't think so.)
If you want to use any ports from Linux/Unix and 99% of open source software... Then yes, you want POSIX. AmigaOS can't support the fork() function so it can't really support POSIX very well.
Who can make modern SW on a computer that's too slow to run it?
No one.
A 68000 can encode and decode MP3, BUT it's not FAST ENOUGH to. (Ray tracing was slow, BUT Amiga COULD do it. Doesn't mean that, "oh it takes four hours to make a frame, guess we'll leave it to people who own mainframes in their garage.")
:-?
If there was a 400 MHz 68000, it's probably enough to do it. Motorola stopped making faster 68000 CPUs, so we don't have fast Amigas.
The 68k architecture is not suited to HI-Speed operation... hence Motorola moving to the Coldfire, for future "68k" development.
An Amiga 2000 could play MP3 too (with no accelerator card!!!). If there was a 700 MHz 6502, an Apple ][ probably could too!
No it can't. To play an MP3 you need to decode it in realtime, no 68000 could ever do that. My 68040 could do some weird low quality thing... but it was horrible. the 6502 can't scale to 700Mhz, the design doesn't allow it.
Make modern HW available, and the old SW may be fast enough to do anything that is possible today, even unaltered.
NatAmi60 --- "for great justice!!!! - AYBABTU :-D :-D :-D
bloodline wrote:
Known hardware, few incompatibilities from unknown hardware or drivers.
Stuck on 20 year old technology... it is going to appeal only to Retro Gamers at best.
All we need is new hardware to replace ageing or dead hardware.
Amigas' should appeal to anyone who wants a system to work without trouble or a pile of manuals a metre high.
But we are not going to appeal to anyone who wants to use a computer to do anything that one expects from a computer now.
Well, we are a couple notches below, even with NatAmi60, but it's a better system, that's why we're going that way.... Also, NatAmi60 is NOT the highest level that can be achived, the MHz can still go higher, and we WILL be in their league then, but with smaller OS, smaller productivity SW size, quick responsive feel, etc. etc.
You are just speculating you don't know, and your lack of technical knowledge does not allow you to speculate.
And just general "fun" factor, it's hard to explain.
No, you confuse "fun" with "familiarity". Modern systems are complex and powerful, far beyond the Amiga... but you would have to put the effort in to learn them.
Macintoshes are more like an appliance now, a refrigerator or microwave oven.
Computers are ment to be appliances. Very multipurpose appliances, you switch it on and it does it's job. No messing around, no pain, no struggle.
PCs are incomplete hodge-podges. Never know if it will be reliable, and you can't manipulate things without them just stop working.
XP SP2 has made the situation much better. I admit though, this did cause me problems in my work and thus I moved to MacOSX.
Linux, hard to fathom, and constantly in revision, trying to keep up with drivers eternally.
I thought you liked "fun"?
