ZX Pilot #14 28 августа 1997

Amiga

AMIGA vs PC - Collection of questions and answers from the ZX-FORMATa

   AMIGA vs PC



   Hi! At present, we have prepared a small collection of 
voprosovotvetov ZX-Format'a. 


   M> I liked your column "Amiga-club" but there is at
your words, users of IBM is almost not human.

   ZF> Well, let's order. First things first - IBM - etofirma 
producing mostly did not like that in Russia, usually 
understand by that word. A computer that is meant to the world 
is called PC. Further, no one says that users PC-not people. 
For the most part is just tired of glitches and deceived by the 
propaganda of people (no offense will be said). The point that 
each computer is good for the task to which he intended. PC, on 
your birth, office equipment - not graphic station, not a 
musical synthesizer and, incidentally, not peremalyvatel-digits 
for these tasks, too, has its own class machines. On this 
before buying a computer should be determine the range of tasks 
for which it was intended. 

   M> For example, a year ago I was advised to collect the 
"Quartet", and since then, and gathered a good half of that is 
Mother, CPU, case, keybord and now know that all this should be 
thrown out and collect on "Amiga". It's a shame, is not it?


   ZF> Ooo ... That's generally something and have fun. After
really have to throw away. BUT! Does not because
where there is - then what - that is incompatible with the PC 
computer "Amiga", that someone - something like the most (by 
the way, because the world is and drugie PC - MAC, PowerMac, 
SGI, VAX, various working station ...), but because they are 
going for almost a year. Case that PC long ago and thoroughly 
transformed into an instrument of pumping money. While this 
applies to almost any other area of ​​industry on the PC it has 
acquired quite monstrous proportions. In connection so all 
PC'shnoe iron obsolete just with incredible speed. MAXIMUM PC 
amortization period is two years. This means that if the 
equipment purchased half a year ago - it is outdated, A year 
ago, is outdated thoroughly, and if half that easy hopeless and 
is subject to immediate cancellation. By the way - pentium'u 
More than a year ... In connection with the above can be easily 
done conclusion: the PC to collect often meaningless, because 
during assembly product is completely obsolete. Justified only 
buy the whole machine. The exception is the case when the 
machine is intended for a specific problem to be solved by a 
specific software package. Naprimerrazvodka printed circuit 
boards, computation in MatCad or Serenade, printing text and 
diagrams ... Well, if you want a universal remedy information 
processing, or just want to continually play in the new Toys 
that will require not only the right to buy a car, but dig 
underpass in the Diamond Fund, or at least the warehouse 
Product Gosznak because in your budget will be a bottomless 
hole called "upgrade".


   M> Could you create a rubric such as "IBM-User" or anything 
should like? I think that fans of either IBM or slightly less 
than the Amiga. 

   ZF> Well, even if so, o there than you can write? How have
someone did not go to 8-meters and a toy, and then yesterday 
went without sound? Or to discuss how bold looks like DUKE 
NUKEM in Dual Pentium Pro 200 MHz 64Mb with SVGA 4Mb? Somehow 
it is not very interesting. And because there PC'shnye 
magazines. And about the fans ... let our common prejudice, but 
rather pc more users, but with the fans tightly. Indeed, the 
majority people use PC as needed, or simply from ignorance of

the existence of other mashin.Po number of fans with Amiga can
compete razve that Speccy. I doubt whether there is a
a person who enjoys the Amiga on demand - by selling its
you can always buy a very nehily PC. But, by the way, Speccy 
because some use because of lack of money for more ... Although

Of course, true fans have Spectrum'a sea.



   L> Tell us why you Amiga?

   A> My name is Alex Zhunev, and the question of why I chose
Amiga, I can say - this is the machine on which I can safely
work, not wasting time and effort to fight the system. Machine
helps in the work, rather than a hindrance. Naturally, there 
appear its such features as multitasking, ease of use ... I

composer, writing in her music. When I work, the machine becomes
just a continuation of my hands, part of the plan. This machine 
is made for man. You can all wish to have it at home, well and 
on work - it's what you get.


   L> How long do you work on it?

   A> about three years. When to Fight me, the question arose 
of what to choose Home - I chose the Amiga, and have never 
regretted it. 

   L> you do not mind the absence of such a large number 
soft'a, as for pc?


   A> I would not say so. Maybe it's just not that 
raspostranen. The Amiga has a huge amount of software in 
different areas. In Russia, this no problems.




   And> I've been away. My name is Igor Ivanov. We ourselves in 
the Urals, of the Chelyabinsk region. I Video engineer at a 
studio cable television, covering a large enough area. To work 
professionally in Amig'ah. CATV Amiga-it everything. pc out 
there dying, Amiga lives there. 

   L> And what can you say about soft'a?

   And> Soft? I do not know who said that it is not enough. We 
do not even can take away from this all, though we have enough. 
3D animatsiyapozhaluysta! Work is very convenient. There is 
still a programmkaScala simply unparalleled on other machines. 
It is very useful especially for TV, though certainly not 
limited to, for example, for presentations, online'vyh kiosks. 
Amiga - the machine on which nice work. Even its very name 
implies - a girlfriend. When her work, she helps you. When you 
work on pc - it is you, for some reason, all the time way. When 
we started work, it was the year the 90 th, we had a 500-ki. 
There was very little programs, almost nebylo information, and 
all documentation was in unreadable for me German. It so 
happened that the machine itself taught me to work on it. On 
the pc this is impossible to say. By For other platforms, on 
the Amiga, we have a Mac. You can see compare, how it works 
there, as there ... Well, talk about the advantages of Amiga 
does not make sense, they should just skip. 



   ?> I started at ibm from the 3-shki, and a 4-year results 
will change the lot configurations, up to pentium 120. But at 
the same time, I did not notice virtually no change for the 
better. That is, as I had 3-scale, so I had a pentium 120 8Mb - 
still buggy and inhibited. About Amiga I learned from fido-net, 
when there is written tekstiki about it. I am interested in 
this matter and, a month before As I saw the Amiga, I sold my 
pentium. Then he went to the man looked like this all works 
fast, it was just seventh heaven. For $ 550 I could have a car, 
compared to a pentium was simply zero. On the pc I ever had a 
problem with memory, I was very little that could run on their 
8-Mb. And here I saw the car in which, with 2Mb of memory, it 
was easy to do what could not be done on P. with 16Mb. In 
short, from the Amiga I have had the most pleasant experience. 
It's just a friendly machine, which helps to work. A pentium I 
just exploited. Constantly had to change something, something 
not buy. Always something is not working. Iron is divided into 
operating and unemployed, and differs only in that it made 
"intel" or China. All I saw on the Amiga - worked quickly and 
conveniently. Speed ​​Graphic just struck me. In a word - it 
must be see. Now we are negotiating with Moscow, will otkrvat in

Chelyabinsk his firm. We will push the Amiga, do Advertising,
promotes. Incidentally, I myself do not yet have Amiga,
but already I feel full amizhnikom. <Rotate
back demonstriruya inscription "iNTEL OUTSIDE" T-shirt> this
says it all. None of the processor "intel" no intelligence
just a pinch of sand, longing for his native desert. And on
the way back I stopped by to Moscow, and took away his Amiga. 
Here actually all I wanted to say.