When did you realize that the wintel machines had caught up to the amiga?

[amigaksi]

by orb85750 on 2009/5/5 21:00:38

>Have they? OK, yes. However, I find Wintel machines to be very powerful, but very bloated and inefficient too -- the GM Hummers of the computer world.

The way you put it, it looks like you just decided.

They haven't caught up ALL the way.  For most things they have.  They still use inferior joystick interface and programming techniques (non-cycle exact).  Wave the hand and hope it will finish within that time frame.  And given the nonstandard hardware being driven at driver level, it looks like the Amiga style of writing directly to hardware registers and taking over the machine is a retro-machine monopoly.

[amigaksi]

For those who agreed wintel machines caught up to Amiga, just letting you know you are dead wrong.  In order to come up to that conclusion, you would have to take into account every aspect of computing on Amiga and show that it's doable on PC.  Experimentally, that would take a very long time to prove.  Logically, I already pointed out a few things undoable on modern PC that are doable on Amiga.  So I suggest those who agreed wintel machines caught up to Amiga to retract their remarks unless they were just expressing their opinion or just basing their remarks on "looks" and not anything substantial from the engineering/useage perspective.