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║Article: PC... To be or not to be? ║
║Author: Rezonal + Com. Review N 45(69)║
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"Yes, what is written here about this murder-
What computer?” thought the Amizhniki.
I read ZF-5 here and realized that it
the authors just want to destroy the PC and for now
take a better opportunity (this is their opinion)
wheelbarrows for the home.
There really are a lot of programs for AMIGA
on a wide variety of topics. Possibly ZF5
I’m right that AMIGA is superior in graphics and sound.
PC walks. But a computer is not only about graphics
and sound is also a means for work!!!
What are the most common areas of
changing computers? Probably not the graphics and
sound (I mean CIS countries). Computer for
work is mainly typing texts,
compilation of databases, etc.
Now I will try to prove to you that
PC is much easier to use than AMIGA
in these "secretary" industries. Let's take
standard PC car: 486DX4-100/8/850/1M.
And let's take AMIGA-1200.
Let the Amizhniki say that AMIGA is cool
that in graphics and sound. After all, they do everything there
coprocessors. But you must admit, there is no
support for editing, say, newspapers!!
Here everything will have to be blamed on the CPU.
To edit newspapers you need convenience
to see her sheet on the monitor screen.
Therefore, the mode 1024*768*256 col will work.
You also need a good screw and a lot of memory
tee. As you can see,PC is completely suitable
for these purposes. Let's look at AMIGA. I ho-
I think, for example, to assemble an AMIGA with the same data
nym. You also need a great monitor (1024*
*768 not one TVset is capable of normal
issue).
Let's compare prices. Yes, AMIGA is worth knowing
much more expensive.
Okay, let me say I'm a rich man. I'm ku-
saw both PC and AMIGA. Now I will install SOFT
on both computers.
For PC I immediately got WORD for W95. But
for AMIG I had to go God knows where
purchase is K(k>>1) times more expensive.
Let, for example, I bought it to compare
thread
I'm running WIN95 on PC and Work Bench on
AMIGA. Work Bench loaded a little faster.
But this is a micro-flaw, because... I can imagine
Do not turn off the computers yet (as they do, on-
example, with servers).
I launch Word-rus, take it out from under
Hey, I bought a book and I quickly figure it out
possibilities.
I launch soft on AMIG and try for a long time
I'm trying to figure out how to use those ins-
the ultimate possibilities that it gives me
WORD for PC.
Disadvantages of the AMIG editor:
1. Lack of powerful features
(present on WORD)
2. It takes a long time to figure it out
(everything is in English + no books)
3. The program is much more expensive than WORD.
Amizhniki, don’t go after me! Well
understand that AMIGA is a computer for GFX&MUS.
PC also has advantages (example already
brought)!!!
The company has an area of specialization...
Dear readers. Perhaps younot either
respect the PC, but believe me, the PC is no less
popular in the BUSSR. And therefore it is logical that
someone will protect him and what will they say about him
write articles. (If not logical, then quite
I suggest you go to the doctor). And one more thing. Don't offend-
Come on, Amizhniki. AMIGA is truly BEST,
but only in GFX and SOUND.
Now let's move on to the article
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│What will PC-97 be like │
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PC architecture
You can select USB, FireWire and AGP
The king is not yet dead. Long live the king
As a standard bus, the expansion
The PCI 2.1 bus is used (33MHz, both
provides MAX throughput of 132 MBps.
CPU: Next generation from Intel
Pentium coming soon
Pro (codename - Klamath). 233Mhz.
There might be 32K L1 cache!
By mid-97 will be Pentium 300MHz.
RAM
The basic principle when working with Win is
the more memory the better. Open
Gordon Moore's law is
sits that processor performance
doubles every 18 months, and over the course of
for 15 years there were no significant
deviations from this law. However, micro
Memory circuits are not improving as quickly
tro, and they became slower compared to
communication with the CPU.
External storage devices
Not so long ago, a 1GB screw seemed
the limit of all dreams, but now it’s pro-wait screw. Fortunately, increasing capacity
does not mean a price increase. On the contrary, in the calculation
those per unit of capacity reduces the cost -
Xia. This situation plays into the hands of manufacturers
Software that is already creating products requires
There is a lot of space on the screw.
Portable Storage
found their way. And it all started with the mouth-
Iomega Bernoulli devices (5MB), presented
consisting of two disks equipped with cards
ridges 8.5-11 inches thick. How many
has changed since then!
The main competition in this market
unfolds between SyQuest from its disk-
mi EZ135 and EZFlyer230(135 and 230 MB), Sy-
Jet with a capacity of 1.3 GB and Iomega with its device
Zip in 100 MB and Jaz in 1 GB.
Western Digital is developing
There is a new technology known as code-
new name Century, which should
ensure the implementation of combined in-
interface of the screw and the CD-ROM drive. Use
The screw is used as a cache for a CD-ROM. Western Di-
gital claim that the use of
swarm of Century configured this way
way that the cache memory size is 50 MB,
increases the performance of the CR-drive
ROM 25 times the drive, not
equipped with cache memory.
Now let's briefly describe others
types of external storage devices. What
concerns disks, it is difficult to predict
what future awaits them. Price of traditional
optical devices supplied by such
companies like PinnacleMicro and Olympus
is still almost $2000 with capacitance
it's a little more than 2 GB, and it's unlikely to be included
in the foreseeable future will decrease so much that
similar devices have become available to
desktop users. Many
of them are quite suitable for magnetic transfers
portable data storage devices with a capacity
up to 1 GB, although when using non-optical
technological technologies it is impossible to continue
increasing the capacity of such devices. And
although in WORM tools ( Write Once, Read
Many) very great need (for example-
measures to create backup copies), for now
that optical disks are located, as it were, in
I'm waiting with a hammer and anvil, and "at least
valney" is, as you probably guessed,
you know, DVD technology (Digital Versa-
tile Disk - digital floppy disk).
DVD drives will begin to install
in PCs already in 1997, while the disks themselves,
most likely will be implemented in the form
so-called DVD-ROM with a capacity of 4 GB. They
will replace the currently popular discs
CD-ROM with a capacity of 650 MB, but less than
a year after their debut should appear-
All rewritable DVD-R discs.
DVD devices will be sold at
roughly the same price as CD drives
ROM (up to $1000), but they use
more advanced CDFS technology (CD Fi-
le System), which should eliminate the complexity
ty associated with multi-session technology for
pussy. Undoubtedly, in the future devices
DVD will be replacedcurrently used compact
disks (and possibly optical media
storage of information) and will become integral
This is an attribute of high-level systems.
Computer Review, 20 Nov. 1996.
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