Adventurer #06 28 февраля 1997

Amiga

Exchange of experience - What do we choose: the advantages and disadvantages of PC and Amiga.

           What we choose?



     After last month of August in
Peter hangouts under the enigmatic title
Enlight, sharply aggravate the dispute between
adherents platforms PC - Amiga about the benefits of their 
favorites. Disputes these alone are meaningless, that the vast 
majority have never seen Amiga computers and can not judge 
these things objectively. I worked on the PC, and Amiga, and 
made some conclusions. I suggest them to you, do not claim to 
ultimate truth. 

Benefits of PC:

 1.Nalichie strong policy support;
 2.Bolshoe of the periphery;
 3.Vysokaya processor;
 4.Bolshoy range of different PC models for

   different applications;

Disadvantages PC:

 1.Slishkom big (literally)

   program because of the use of languages

   High-level features of the OS;
 2.Sravnitelno low quality;
 3.Plohaya compatible hardware;
 4. "Oak" operating system, MSDOS,

   pushed far from its preceding
   ots CP / M;
 5.Esche more "Oak" system WINDOWS'95
 6.Ochen large requests for resources,

   ie need a lot of MB, a lot Mhz;
 7.Zapusk multiple programs simultaneously
   but (multitasking) is problematic from
   the constant system crashes and conflicts
   that the programs themselves, as a consequence of Nep
   rodumannosti system itself;
 8.Zaputannost and complexity of the system for

   user, remote user

   of concepts such as: memory (not explained
   eat memory), driver, data, and, ultimately,

   from an elementary understanding of the principles


   the PC (ie from the user to do

   fool, hence the term "kettle").

Explanation: The term "system" here
means the combination of systemic
entry-level program (DOS, BIOS ..) and
Shell WINDOWS.

Benefits Amiga:

 1.Nalichie small but extremely

   effective and convenient software (in this

   Item Amiga, probably does not con
   kurentov at all);
 2.Prakticheski 100% compatibility of all

   models for hardware;
 3.Nalichie even in a minimal configuration
   tion of all necessary for normal

   of components and devices;
 4.Ochen high performance

   working with graphics and sound, without
   any problems, because all actions satisfied
   nyayut coprocessors in DMA-mode;

 5.Sovershenno unique in all the characteristics
   teristics multitasking system.

(Note: I ran simultaneously on
dozens of programs and operated without any
discomfort even on the Amiga 500.)

 6.Prekrasnaya operating system, not

   Unmatched performance and

   flexibility. It is easy to connect any

   drivers for external devices or

   communication programs with each other. All

   programs use standard libraries
   Library is stored on the disk and access
   nye through the OS, it should be easy

   programming, "neglyuchnost and ma
   ly the size of the resulting software code. Bible
   edema is constantly being improved without

   loss of compatibility.

Comment: You do not have to think
on the problems of transferring data between PCs, you can 
simply insert into the floppy disk from a PC or a ZX Spectrum 
and pa Bot directly to him, without copying to another

device. You can even invent your
format disc or hard drive.


             This is a must see!

 Disadvantages Amiga:

 1.Net powerful accounting software;
 2.Nebolshaya prevalence in Russia

   and CIS (?)


               Afterword


     After two years of use
Amiga I have completely changed the representation of such 
things as ease of use and capabilities of modern PCs. 

     If you want to understand all the charm
Amiga, then try to work with the program Directory Opus (great 
example Modern Amiga software) and you will understand

which is which.

 P.S. Your name please do not specify the settlement
      Kolka did not want to become the object of our
      Meshack by PC'shnikov that does not

      means of my contempt for him. But

      I just feel sorry for them, because they live

      in its ordinary and limited

      the world under the name of your PC, and in most
      space its not even know, and not

      want to know about something beyond the

      limits the average closed
      nutogo circle.


    Please - do not tie the discussions in

    e-journals with a reference

    this article.


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