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Offline KThunder

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Re: How did Amiga influence you?
« on: June 10, 2010, 02:46:30 PM »
Anybody remember the old Disney cartoon "Duck Tales" it had Scrooge McDuck and Heuy, Dewie, and Louie. Anyway Scrooge McDuck had a saying he used lots of time on that show "Work smarter, not harder."

That is what the Amiga always was to me, more efficient, more streamlined, smarter. I always liked the pc, configuring hardware, I knew all DOS commands, and I was reasonably familiar with Mac. The Amiga always seemed to be the best of both worlds.

Both smarter and harder have their merits though, Pcs have increased in cpu power so much it would be foolish to ignore it. That's why AROS has affected me as much as Amiga.
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Re: How did Amiga influence you?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2010, 02:53:25 PM »
What bloat? All modern OS' have significant resource requirements. If MS ignored hardware improvements we would have much more to complain about. An os that can't use 4gigs of ram? can't use hd's over 2gigs? Can't use cdroms?

All operating systems increase in size and capabilities because they have to. Linux, Windows, MacOs, and even Aros are in the same boat. Os 3.1 is what 4 or 5 megs max right? thats bigger than 1.3 and Aros which is a rewrite of 3.1 is much larger.
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