NT4 was supposed to do much more than the humble Amiga too, so the comparison isn't very fair. Networking needed to be initialised, driver structures for any kind of graphics or sound or networking device installed, proper multi-threaded multi-tasking, some idea of multiuser capabilities, and so forth.
Well, the Amiga does initialize graphics and sound drivers, if you have a graphics or audio card. Otherwise RTG etc. wouldn't work. Same goes for networking devices. And are you really saying that Windoze has "proper multi-threaded multi-tasking" and Amiga does not? Blatantly wrong.
I'm not saying that Windows is the pinnacle of stability, but it has improved over the years to the point where crashes indicate something really wrong,
No, it hasn't. I remember when XP had just been released I went into the computer shop and had tried out the included Microsoft-approved pinball game. Within 5 minutes XP had
crashed. I walked out laughing.
amiga- no modern browser, office software
Yes there is. I use AWeb and it works fine for all the 1000+ pages I visit. There's also IBrowse and Voyager of course. I don't understand why some people seem to hate Amiga browsers. I haven't yet seen any sites where use of Java, Flash, ActiveX or such crap is actually of any benefit to the user. If such things were ported to AWeb I would regard this as a bad move, as it would be needlessly adding bloat and useless features.
As for office software, there's plenty of that around too. Granted, most of the best office software is commercial, but that applies to nearly every platform, not just the Amiga. Except Linux of course, I'm not sure if there's any commercial office software for that but that is probably due to lack of any market for it.
APCI just doesn't work, in my experience. A bit like most features that are supposed to make life easier.. it's just badly implemented.
Agreed. Also I'm lucky if I can even get Windoze to shut down, it only succeeds about 10% of the time. The rest of the time it just hangs and I have to reboot manually and get hassled for supposedly not turning the damn thing off properly.
you dont want a decent os because any os you get will have some drawback to turn against
What about OS3.9? Very close to perfect IMHO: fast, friendly, powerful, compatible, what more do you want!?
Why is it that now, even with the best hardware money can buy, we are still expected to wait so long before we can actually do what we want to do?
I've wondered this too. It seems people have been conditioned since the Windows 3.x days to accept waiting for long periods for things to load/initialize. To me it is unacceptable, the solution is simple: don't run bloated crap, run something lean and mean. There has been a decline in the amount of software benchmarking that is done by eg. magazines. If people keep buying and using bloatware the situation will never get better.
