Interesting Amiga 'Tribute'

[Jethro_Tull]

http://www.kirps.com/web/main/_blog/all/a-tribute-to-the-commodore-amiga.shtml

A fairly shallow Amiga history article.  It's quite positive and an entertaining read so I'll bookmark read, to forward to anyone who'd like to know what the 'Amiga' is all about.

[Krusher]

I think this post should end by a statement made by John C. Dvorak in 1996, who said:

The AmigaOS "remains one of the great operating systems of the past 20 years, incorporating a small kernel and tremendous multitasking capabilities the likes of which have only recently been developed in OS/2 and Windows NT. The biggest difference is that the AmigaOS could operate fully and multitask in as little as 250 K of address space. Even today, the OS is only about 1MB in size. And to this day, there is very little a memory-hogging CD-ROM-loading OS can do the Amiga can't. Tight code — there's nothing like it. I've had an Amiga for maybe a decade. It's the single most reliable piece of equipment I've ever owned. It's amazing! You can easily understand why so many fanatics are out there wondering why they are alone in their love of the thing. The Amiga continues to inspire a vibrant — albeit cultlike — community, not unlike that which you have with Linux, the Unix clone."

 :cry:

Beautiful statement.

[bloodline]

Probably the nicest thing the contemptible John Dvorak has ever said...

[taunusand]

-> Krusher

So true!!

How can we convince other people to boycot M$ ?   :-D

Amiga will grow big in the future and bill g. will burn  :lol:

[bloodline]

Just in case you didn't know:

In 1984 John C. Dvorak criticized Apple's inclusion of a mouse with their computers, saying “There is no evidence that people want to use these things.”

He's basically a {bleep}...

[jorkany]

bloodline,

He's basically a {bleep}...

Amen! I remember right about the time the original Playstation was released he wrote up an article on how console videogames were irrelevant to the computer/electronics industry and not something consumers were interested in anyway.

I'd chalk up the Dvorak attribute in the thread subject article to a misquote.