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Offline runequester

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Re: Modern OS?
« on: August 01, 2012, 02:33:09 AM »
Quote from: commodorejohn;701729
Zing!
 
No, but seriously, so much of what's being thrown around in this thread is just clippings from the Grand List of Things PC Users Have Made Fun of Amiga Users for Not Having. You can hear the rationalization - "well, if I can play movies, and I can use Skype, and I can run Office, and I can play all the latest 3D games, and I can run all the latest PC software on all the latest PC hardware, then nobody will ever be able to make fun of my Amiga again!" Well, no shít, Sherlock, that's because it'll be a PC! Oh, and also nobody was ever dissuaded from mocking someone by having the basis of their mockery taken away, so don't count on that even if you do succeed in redefining "Amiga" to mean "another damn generic PC system."
 
The biggest obstacle to the Amiga platform and community isn't hardware or software - it's the sheer amount of time wasted on tilting at windmills because somewhere, at some point, some PC user told us they might be giants.

Well, now the CUSA thing makes total sense then!
 
Just redefine things so "amiga =  linux PC" and voila, we suddenly have amiga's with skype and Quake 4 and memory protection.
 
Heck, Commodore could have done that in 1985 and been done with it!
 

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Re: Modern OS?
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2012, 09:34:47 PM »
In the basic HTML mode, yeah, Gmail works great. I've used it a lot.
It's not fast on an 030 but well, it wouldn't have been fast on a 386 either.

YAM is still my fave email client ever too :)

Otherwise yeah, compatibility to standards is a problem, but are those OS issues? Is there an inherent reason we couldn't have, say, a more compatible version of APDF, or simple export to .doc format etc in an amiga app ? (assuming there were people to code the damn thing and people willing to sponsor it)
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