>Ummmm interseting. info.
>Yes, I do know that the Amiga had few design
>flaws, and so does just about
>every stystem (Note: I"m using a AMD chip based
>pc, running windows)
Jesus the design flaws in the Amiga pale compared to what the designers got right. The Amiga is a bloody work of art! I even told RJ that was the case. Please don't think I was trashing the Amiga I love the machine more than you could ever know.
I attented an Atari coding party hosted by Leon Orielly in Wales for gods sake and I didn't shut up about the miggy hardware. :-) I love the Amiga hardware. I'm just trying to make the point that there's no absolutes when it comes to system design. That Atari ST was a damn nice design. You should try some 68k coding on the ST or the Falcon to truly appreciate it.
They were both cool machines.
>Look at the PC for god's sake. Choosing the intel >8088 and later the 8086
Yeach I'd rather not :-)
and so on line, was a mistake. The motolrola 68000 chip was much better. Why
Heh I wouldn't argue with you that that was the case. I rerfuse to do Intel assembler. I'd rather work with the 68k or the Arm.
286 code sucks bleeding horse shit through a straw. :-)
hmm 16 regs versus 4 I wonder what I would prefer. :
>they picked that instead......I cringe every time >I think of it.
Don't we all. Atari and Amiga (and Acorn for that matter) users what know the cpu must feel sick when they look at the PC arch.
>MS-Dos was (and still is) a pain to use. IBM had >narrowed it down to two
<g> Look at AST's opeinion of MS-DOS in his moder operating systems book fotr a good laugh.
What's interesting is that the ST TOS is re-entrant to 3 three levels. You can waut vbl with a system call too thanks to the xbios which is more than I could say for MS-DOS. :-)
>operating system chooses down to the MS-Dos (which >they bought or lisensed
.from another company that called it QD-Dos or Q->dos; Quick and Dirty disk
>operating system) or and operating system designed >by (guess who) Digital
>Research(Who brought GEM to the world). They >
>choose MS-Dos because of some
>disagreement with Digital Research.
>Windows is improving but still has many
>flaws,(such as a lack of good command
If you want to see an x86 machine perform than run BeOS on it. Windows sucks.
>line interface, the fact that windows and Dos
>aren't fully intergrated, it's
>a pain to find some files, the dll libraries are a >pest, it crashes more
>than any computer OS that I know of. etc, etc).
>Well, to all those of you still using your Amigas >And Ataris: Keep trying to
>use them as long as you can. Maybe someone will be >inspired to come up with
>their own ideas and rid the world of windows.
Amen. You hit the nail on the head there.
All I ask is that your try an ST or a Falcoin out before codemnbing it and that Atari owners do the same for the miggy. I wish to god Windows wasn' the dominant force.
