Will there every be another computer like the amiga?

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The avarige 2005 PC can't even run xp any more. When I was running my celeron/512mb system I wanted to cut my dick off every time I tried to open a word processor and firefox at the same time. it's weird how the system requirements for Xp are 128mb ram, but it uses just under 350 on first boot. No weird load-on-startup programs installed, theming turned off.

sloooooow

Oh yeah, Did you know that NTs design was based on VMS as well as OS/2? And they stole the TCP/IP stack from BSD.

Xp memory use went up with each service pack. The system took up around 128mbs in 2001 but you needed 256 to actually run anything and not die of impatience. Service pack 2 upped the anti to around 200mb for the system and so you needed a 512mb machine to do anything. I am writing this on a late 2003 xp pro laptop and it takes 305mbs for the system. No problem with 1.25gb of memory. After just checking, 2 web browsers are using 325mbs between them. 512mb just won't do it in the modern world. Xp is still usable but just barely so at 512mb.

And my A4000 is just so happy with 80mb. So much the world has changed.

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And to think I have the encyclopedia brittanica text and pictures on one 640 MB CD ROM.

How can a 2 web browsers and a gui OS need the equivalent amount as an encyclopedia?

Efficient use of memory is not a windows specialty. Nor is OSX that much better. I had an OSX machine for a while and I found that applications seemed to hold onto memory after you had quit so it could be only be run a few days without serious slowdowns--the free memory just got less and less even though I wasn't running that much. Windows does a little better but it is still a good idea to shut down the machine and reset it after 10 days or so.

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Yes a lot of us are just technoids and knowledgable about computers and have been using them for a long time. I've actually found this thread amusing reading on a cold and snowy day. Amigans see the PC and Mac from a different perspective, especially us oldtimers who lived through the evolution of the whole thing. Yes were digressing from the Amiga but it's an interesting digression.