Amiga vs PC

[KThunder]

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I think it kinda depends on exactly what you see amiga as. For me, Aros as a rewrite of os3.x, counts. And given the advances the Aros team has made, I don't think there is any reason Aros can't be a perfectly usable desktop os in just a few years time.

The biggest difference between Aros, Morphos, and OS4 is the same difference between a modern pc and a PPC amiga. Aros has access to gigabytes of ram, Gigahertz multicore cpus etc. etc. for CHEAP.

Aros needs full Web capability, more media capability, and more apps and games and it is good to go. And as it is based directly on os3.x I would say that Amiga is capable of being very fully modern.

[KThunder]

I wish it didn't.  That just makes things so inconsistent.  Every machine can have a different speed memory and you need to program for the worst case of the slowest one.


Hard drives are obsolete and wish they were never invented.  Ataris had cartridges originally (some banked) and these flash devices seem to be taking things back full circle to back to memory types of drives rather than mechanical moving ones.  Hard drives are like a glitch in computer progress-- slow, prone to crash, inconsistent in read/writes, etc.  Better to use flash drives.


And hardly anyone programs its registers to get the maximum out of it.  Such a waste.


For games, sound is fine on the Amiga.  But there are issues with the PC games-- controllers are too complex and analog, gameplay is more like watching a movie-- not as addicting as pixel-exact collisions and where every pixel has significance, the games just look good but there are many DVD movies that look better.  If I didn't need to argue with people like you and wanted to play games, I wouldn't be using a PC.

modern computers are very consistant, mine is 64bit cpu, dx10, etc. You have to think differently when HAL and drivers are concerned , you are stuck back in 1994 if you think systems arent consistant.

Hard drive are still here and better than anything else including flash by orders of magnitude when size speed and reliability are concerned.

Drivers do hit the registers otherwise no graphics card would ever work, do you know what HAL is (Hardware Abstraction Layer) you seem to really be stuck in 1994. We are talking about "modern computers" here.


@others
there is no reason Aros cannot support dual core quad core etc. and become a more user-freindly version of what linux is today.