Discussion: Speccy - life or death. (C) Werewolves MDM 229-5053 After reading Lprint#10 and Lprint#11, I decided express your point of view about life/death Speccy. No, guys, and again no, I don’t agree with any of you (especially with Filosof). One way or another you prophesy the death of Spectrum, (Filosof even gave us a date, sorry no exact day and time in hours and minutes) but at the same time forget about it (or don’t pay special attention attention) that Spectrum is a computer for POOR. Those who had money Pentiums moved straight towards him, bypassing and Spectrum, and Amiga, and everyone else "left" platforms. I won't go far and I'll take myself as an example. I would like have at least an Amiga and I don’t see it there is nothing treacherous about this old Speccy (I'm sure everyone dreams of more sophisticated platforms), but for now I I'll be an ordinary sound engineer with a salary below average, I'm not at all under the circumstances I can’tyourself this allow. Now I'll go deeper. Let's say, for some reason, I become rich (dreaming, as they say, is not harmful), I'll have an Amiga, a Pentium, and something else yet. So what am I doing with all this wealth? will I do it?! As an artist, I don't see myself there I implement it for those who need “manual” graphics work when you can just scan it ? Let's say I'm a coder, so what? I will become a competitor to powerful Western firms? Examples were given more than once - on IBM can only be created if you're a professional. Otherwise, you you will be the most satisfying ordinary User broad profile, with a narrow concept. And bye our powerful Belarus will not become powerful and a rich Power capable of paying we give our people high salaries despite everything desire, even in 2500 we will not switch to other platforms, if of course time, smart Japanese will not invent a certain SDK (super cheap computer). I'm sure neither one of you won't be able to keep up with the prices on IBM, ever-growing memory and various devices and programs growing like mushrooms and requiring one thing from you - MONEY. Spectre>I completely agree with the point Werewolves' point of view and I'll add a couple of points from myself: 1. I (as a coder) will need a PC at the institute, but if I sell mine now Speccy and buy it (finances will allow it), then in 2-3 years I will have a car with hopelessly outdated configuration and that means trying to program on it - this just wasting time. Upgrade, creates a TEMPORARY illusion of well-being. And in 3 months you will remember it again word and start counting your money. This means pc at an initial low cost, through a year of continuous upgrades will turn into an exorbitantly expensive car, and if you don't very rich - you can't afford a PC. 2. With Amig the situation is a little better - switching to it you will have to do upgrade is much less common, but also not cheap. It’s also nice that most people Amig'e are former Spectrum people. But how Usually, here too, questions like: “Will there be whether the Amiga will develop successfully in the future, and won't Spectrum history repeat itself? Also, Amiga costs a little more than PC, and This means that switching to it is also in question. What to do? If they let you finances - switch to another platform, if not, keep doing it the old way Spectrum and wait for some kind of jerk suddenlywho would pull him out of this quagmire, because Speccy has always been a computer for "ordinary" people.
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