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From: phil osborn <philosborn@hotmail.com>
>
>The design philosophy in America evolved in the late 19th or early 20th
>century to the engineering maxim that "we can build anything for a dollar a
>pound." It is worthwhile to compare the Amiga OS, which originated in
>Britain as TRIPOS, a real-time industrial control mini-computer OS, or
>LINUX, or Gasse's BeOS, with the American products - MS/DOS, Windows,
MacOS.
> With design and forethought, the Amiga OS could easilly run rings around
>Windows or the Mac at the same clock speed, yet it was much easier to use,
>more stable, and a tiny fraction of the size. (Imagine being able to
format
>not one, but several floppies, simultaneously, while running five or six
>applications and communicating online with no noticeable slowdown, and
being
>able to switch tasks in 1/60th of a second, reliably. The Amiga was doing
>that in 1990.)
>
>Then look at the absolutely unbelievable bugs and stupidity of Windows,
that
>can't even recall from one instant to the next what kind of view you want -
>icons, list, details, big icons. It's a random draw - except when Windows
>willy-nilly decides to default to some view permanently - which happens.
>And the errors were carried forward from Win'95 to '98! If someone had
told
>me that such an atrocity was going to be the dominant OS of the year 2000
in
>1980, I would have thought they were insane.
I've mentioned this before but I had an Amiga once....two of them
actually...the original and then the Amiga2000. Some years passed and THEN
i was introduced to MicroSloth....I was shocked!! Shocked I say!!
Disgustingly primitive and hard to use by comparison
How come this happened? How did the bad overcome the good?
Were not talking politics here (are we?) but engineering and software
design.
EvMick
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