From: Ivan_Pintori@mas.sublink.org (Ivan Pintori)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: I hold in my hands the CBM 1992 Anual Report....
Date: 14 Oct 92 03:23:06 GMT
Organization: MangaZone Advanced Services, Rome - ITALY

In a message dated Tue 13 Oct 92  5:08, Iank@microsoft.com (ian Kennedy)
wrote:

 IK> Then learn to use and configure your windows environment. It's not
 IK> as nice as an Amiga, but it is not some dog slow mud sucking
 IK> pile of crap. But then again, you have no clue so we can't
 IK> expect that much from you, now can we?

Actually I had the misfortune to use Windows on my father's computer.. it
was a 286, and it was bloody slow.. much slower than my oldie 2000 rev 4.0
(1987) with a sole 68000.  But that's actually beside the point.  Commodore
knows that the basic machine is not a number crunch, so it optimized the
os, while MS knows that it can count on the next intel around the block to
be a better number cruncher than the previous, so they kind of got it
relaxed.  I'm not condoning their way of programming (that is not obviously
set by YOU mere programmers, but by some System Analyst), but give to
caeser what is of caesar.

 IK> features that should be in AmigaDOS, but are not (like RTG).

MS HAD to have rtg from the begining.  How many graphic boards are on the
pc market?  Just miss one and you are out of the selling!

 IK> Yes, Windows deosn't multitask as well as the Amiga. But NT does.
 IK> But you wouldn't know about that as only people who have a clue
 IK> know about NT.

well, we'll see how things comes out to.  if NT will be ready in the year
2010, I'd guess it will not be much of a OS.

NOW... I am NOT flaming you, and I am NOT flaming the other guy.  I'm just
thinking, and letting you know what I believe to be right thinking (notive,
I said BELIEVE TO BE).  So I'm not offending anyone.  If I did... well,
sorry it wasn't my intention :-)  I've worked and programmed on various
machines.  I've programed the C= 64, the olivetti Prodest (probably no one
out of italy has ever heard of it), I've lost nights after the macs and
programmed right away on the pc's.  Now it is since the 1987 that I've
stucked on the Amiga in my house.  It works, it does what I want in the way
that I want, and it is su[pported not only by commodore, but also by third
party.  I can afford to buy originals on the Amiga, something that would be
much more difficult on the IBM or MAC platform, and all that I use now are
just originals.  I'm now trying to set up a group of university students to
program TCP/IP for the Amiga.  We are people without any experience on
TCP/IP, but we believe that if we never start studying the standard we'll
never get it out.  This project is NOT to be commercial in the way of
Commodore.  Commodore will include TCP/IP in the 4.0 (something that
Windows doesn't have now too) and it will probably be better than ours, but
we also need to write a tesys at the end of our years, so this will be a
GOOD opportunity to set up a tesys on the aspects of TCP/IP.

I don't believe that PCs can give me that kind of people and support. 
that's way I stay with my 1987 v4.0 Amiga 2000B.


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