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#! rnews 3164 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!saluki-news.wham.siu.edu!slip106.termserv.siu.edu From: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu (Jim Dutton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: The PC Mac Holy war (now returns to FreeBSD) Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 01:09:02 CST Organization: Southern Illinois University Lines: 49 Sender: NNTP@slip106.termserv.siu.edu Message-ID: <2283b52b.411d@slip106.termserv.siu.edu> Reply-To: jimd@slip106.termserv.siu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: slip106.termserv.siu.edu Comment: AmigaNOS v2.9p In-Reply-To: <4mo939$h3@dfw-ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> (from Hellraiser@someone.com) (at Mon, 06 May 1996 19:41:26 GMT) X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 6.24) Hi Hellraiser, on May 06 you wrote: > How can you say MACs are better.. MAC OS doesn't even have preemptive > multitasking!! Get Windows 95.. It has preemptive multitasking for > 32-bit apps and co-operative multitasking for 16-bit apps... and MACs > don't have nearly as much software as PCs do..Maybe that's why 990f > businesses use PCs and not MACs.. It doesn't matter.. Apple will be > out of busineess by 1997...Get a real computer Uh - hem! Well, let's comsider the (Commodore) Amiga which has HAD preemptive multitasking since, what - 1985 ??? (Oh, and still does) Funny how some specialty programs like LightWave were first developed for the Amiga and then, ported to other platforms - hmmmmmm. Course you don't have to worry about the (Commodore) Amiga dying. It already has ! But lookey here - the Amiga is still around - oh my. Well, PC-land winds hands-over-heels in the component availability marketplace - nobody can dispute that. And the Amiga still beats both PC's and Mac's when it comes to the niche graphics markets, even against the newer PC/Mac models. Ever see Babylon-5 ? Will "Ami" still be around in 1997 ? Hard to say, since it is in the process of being sold again (sigh!), but who knows. If the new owners ever succeed in producing the PowerPC version of the Amiga that was being developed, life might be velly interestink, eh? You like Unix-like stuff. It's interesting how the Amiga OS is so Unix like, though not Unix. Maybe a Unix-cousin ? Get a real computer ? I have one. It's called - Amiga. Thanks. BTW - ever notice how Amiga features are creeping into PC and Mac's, like "plug and play". Amiga has had it since 1985 - HELLO !!! When Commodore's idiot management caused the company to go bankrupt, it was funny to hear who was at the bankruptcy sale. Like - IBM, Dell, and a few others I can't remember right offhand. Seems that one or more of them were interested in some of Commodore's patents, like bus design. Personally, I like my Sun (Sparc-5) workstation at work a WHOLE lot better than any Wintel or Mac offering, but as the saying goes, "different strokes for different folks". (I also like BSDtel better than Wintel, oh - and I also run NetBSD on my Amiga/68040). Ummm - and new we return you to FreeBSD ................