amigaksi wrote:
>Oh get over yourself!
The only thing about myself in that reply was that I am one of the exceptions to your statement:
Did you even read the posts before mine?
"Amiga = smelly homeless guy looking in bins for things the rest of the industy discarded years ago..."
I am sure there are many others who are in my boat-- they got their amigas as new or via other channels like Ebay or friends so your remark:
Yeah, all my Amigas have come via that route too...
>I was describing the state of the Amiga, rather accurately as it happens...
is wrong.
It's not wrong... The Amiga is Homeless, no parent company to look after it, it's got no job and can't be found in shops, and smelly as it's had nothing new in years.
The number of weird threads that want some old PPC chip, or desparatly clamouring after various old technologies... is perfectly sums up by "Looking in bins...etc".
>Sure nothing wrong with "dumpster diving",
We agree on that point. To add more details to this, you should rethink that what "industry discards" does not necessarily mean it's bad or obsolete.
Yeah, it does. It means both. Industry will cling on to technology long after it has reached the end of its design life if it is either good or useful.
Once it has been discarded, it's nothing more than a curiosity.
They may have other reasons for discarding it. They never used the standard 9-pin digital joystick ports in IBM or Apples but that does not mean it's refuse; same for many other things.
What advantage does a custom DE9/DB9 have over something like USB?
The DE9/DB9 is:
Bulky;
Subject to ESD/EMI noise;
Can't be hot swapped;
Prone to pin breakage;
Unable to carry hi-speed data;
Expensive (compared to USB);
Require complex attachement to motherboards, 9pins vs 4pins(for USB);
Too big for use on mobile devices... really I could go on...
Do you still want your DE9/DB9 connector?
>but unfortunately that is state of the art with respect to the Amiga...
That's not true-- just your opinion.
No, I would have stated that it was my opinion if it was my opinion.
I can't think of anything about the Amiga that isn't obsolete, but that is just my opinion, I've not done formal study :-)
