This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Robert, >My NT box is a 486-33 w/ 16 MB RAM. "You must be more patient than I am, I wouldn't even consider running NT with less than 24M." "I ran NT 3.1 and 3.5 on a dual pentium 90 for a couple of months, but I still wasn't impressed…
"I thought Cutler had written NT to start with, and had brought a whole bunch of his original VMS team over from DEC because DEC had kind of shafted him." I'm not really sure. I am in several of the Micros**t forums on my Autopilot setup at work. When I…
#OS comparisons
Message #197337
Robert, "'NT 3.1 got a lot of bad press because it deserved it. Then Micros**t hired Dave Cutler to head the NT project team.' I thought Dave Cutler was in from the beginning. (before 3.1)" He may have been, but I like VMS, and NT 3.5 IS a lot better…
Robb, I salute your company's success, but our company (a $6 Billion electric utility), is just the opposite. We are phasing out the few OS/2 apps we have in favor or NTAS or Unix. We are currently using Windows 3.1 and Application Manager on the desktop, but that will migrate…
Paul, "Yah, unfortunately, Gerstner has specifically come out *against* vision." Yeah, I caught that, too. I was pretty amazed just like everyone else. The PowerPC is an excellent example. Byte magazine had their first article on the PowerPC in February 1992. The IEEE computer magazines have been saturated with PowerPC…
Scala Saves Time
Message #196677
Dale, "Making a joke. Sorry I have no sense of humor." OK. Maybe a step was left out . From where I was sitting it looked like a nasty remark in response to a misinterpretation of a single phrase in a 3-4 paragraph post. Late at night. Take care. Tab…
#Scala Saves Time
Message #196676
I am presently running Windows NT 3.5 Workstation on one of my PC's. It is a 486-33 w/ 16 MB RAM and 2.5 GB of hard drive space. Disk size is so high because it is also the backup system for some SQL Server databases on another NT box. NT…
#Scala Saves Time
Message #196675
Robb, Please understand that I have no personal stake in the failure of OS/2. If *I* am wrong about its lack of a future, I will NOT be upset. I believe that the market NEEDS alternatives to Micros**t's visionless products. I just don't *personally* believe IBM can pull it off…
#Scala Saves Time
Message #196674
Paul, On OS/2, I specifically put that word "personally" in my post because I was referring to a personal purchase. I already have an NT box at work. I have six PC's in my office (plus an Amiga), but I use ONLY an Amiga at home. Spending thousands of dollars…
#Amiga/PC software
Message #196673
Paul, "I was talking about comparing equivalent functions on equivalent CPUs, between Windoze and the Amiga. Someone had said that a PC would beat an Amiga with an equivalent CPU, and I said that this was not true, despite the small multitasking penalty. No more." OK. Fair enough. I, too,…
#Amiga/PC software
Message #196367
Paul, "The equivalent software part is the rub. While Amiga software isn't exactly perfect–though I think developers do admirable jobs given the resources they have–it tends to be more efficient at what it does than, say, Windoze software." Oh? Like CAD software that can't talk to a plotter because the…
Dale, " > Under DOS/Windows, my 486-66 (about 40 MIPS) uses 100% of its CPU > power to format a floppy! Get Warped!" No. I intend to get NT'ed. I *personally* believe that OS/2 has no future. Tab Trepagnier Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas
Dale, " > The Amiga has a much more efficient basic architecture and OS. BASIC sucks on any machine." What in the world are you talking about? If I meant "BASIC" I would have spelled it so. Jeez. Tab Trepagnier Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas
Bart, "I don't understand how a program can be more powerful and perform less at the same time." I have 10 years of PC and Amiga experience. Here's the deal… The PC has better business software because corporate buyers demand it. It's a matter of survival in the market. The…
James, Thanks for reciprocating. I got a laugh from: >> … but at least I don't have to look at a Microsloth >> screen that is chugging along trying to decide which program gets that >> ever so valuable .64MB of Pentium based conventional memory. Oh come on. Its not…
Ronald, >> The real problem is Amiga Report relying on too many *optional* programs and files being "there". Why wasn't there a click & read "readme.first" file for telling the downloader what is and isn't needed. I believe you hit the nail on the head with that observation; at least…
Jim, > As an Amiga user for seven years, and a senior analyst in my company's > computer department, I can certainly handle what you describe above. > But is this your definition of "intuitive?" >> No, certainly not. If I gave the impression I was claiming that, I apologize.…
John, Fair enough, and point taken. But this 'free' newsletter cost me several hours of late-night personal time, and about an hour of Compuserve connect charges. I realize the author certainly didn't hold a gun to my head and say, "Download my unreadable newsletter that works with nothing on your…
Jim, Part of your post included these steps: "… apply a program called Guide2Doc which converts ot from AmigaGuide format to plain text, then load it into TurboText, and edit out all the stuff I don't find interesting or worth reading twice." My original post after encountering Amiga Report for…
Don, Thanks, but no it does not contain subdirectories. It is a compound Assign, which under WB 2.04+ allows multiple physical directories to be part of logical directories assigned on the system. I set up my C: directory with ASSIGN C: SYS:C SYS:CC This makes both SYS:C and SYS:CC part…
Martin, You posted to me… "1) Workbench will not find files that are in compound assigned directories like my C: directory." >> Try adding the following line to your user-startup file right after the line to set the paths (this assumes the directory is named cc, I think that is…
Richard, Thanks for your help. "… I select the file and push the unarc button on my button bar. Then, I select the guide file and press the button I have configured for amigaguide. Pretty simple." Of course it is, if you have SID configured that way. I have already…
Rick, Thanks for your help, but after explicitly pointing the icon at Installer, it complained about a (Library) statement in the script file. I have lost all interest in reading the newsletter. As far as I am concerned it doesn't even exist. Thanks again. Tab Trepagnier Cruising on AutoPilot from…
Don, Thanks for your attempt to help, but you posted to me, "Sub-directories aren't part of your path. That is, if C: is in your path, C: isn't included." In all honesty, I haven't a clue as to where you got the idea that I have subdirectories under my C:…
Eulogio, Thanks very much for your help. I mean that. But NO, let's NOT keep digging. All I wanted to do was read a newsletter, and now three days and 16 messages later I no longer have any interest. At this point, I couldn't care less if Amiga Report evaporated…
Amiga SW and ease of use
Message #178883
Brian, "btw, I use the same technique as you, i.e. having a C: and CC: directories and having one added to the other. And yes, I run into the same problems. Obviously, somewhere, somehow, the path add feature is broken. Damned if I know how. Welcome to the club." You…
#Amiga SW and ease of use
Message #178882
Richard, "ALL I wanted to do is read a darn newsletter" >> That's exactly what you should have done. Why bother installing it anyway? Two reasons. First, the file is in Amiga Guide format with link information embedded in the text, and secondly, because it unpacked with an icon that…
#Amiga SW and ease of use
Message #178881
Eulogio, Thanks. Yes, the path is set in startup-sequence/user-startup. The only other path problem I have ever had was, ironically, the APAssist command used by Autopilot's Help system. Even though it was in a directory in the path, that wasn't good enough. It had to be in C:, even though…
#Amiga SW and ease of use
Message #178880
Steve, Thanks for your help. I know this. The icon doesn't specify ANY path for Installer. I am running WB 2.1, which I believe, will use the system path. That path includes C:, which includes the directory that contains an "Installer" program. It's just that it doesn't find it, or…
Jim, "…there is where the money went…not to mention Gould and Ali…" I _think_ I know where Gould came from, didn't he buy Commodore from Tramiel? But I don't recall ever hearing where Ali came from. Out of the clear blue sky, he was in there screwing up everything he…
Rick, "It's part of my job to answer calls from customers wondering why their programs aren't working." Love it! It's part of my job, too. Being an Amiga user, I have fun with my PC-using coworkers. You say it is "ridiculous" for a word processor to take 30+ MB of…
Henry, "… channel his marketing and R&D into the graphic workstation market." "He seems to make a valid point." Yes. But please remember what I said. Just because we (the Amiga) are not competing with them, does NOT mean they (the clone army and Apple) are not competing with us.…
Ben, Please don't misunderstand me here. If you are right about the PowerPC surviving its current sole source situation, then GREAT! But I think we are sort of coming full circle here. The PowerPC was proposed in 1992 by IBM, Apple, and Motorola to break "the Intel stranglehold." OK, fine.…
Dale, Dealers are very careful to avoid giving away the shop. In my case, I told that dealer that I didn't expect them to match mail order. I pulled the 15% pretty much from the air. Sometimes I would buy at MO+20%, which might be a difference (from 15%) of…
John, "But what does anybody need multitasking for?" Obviously my sarcasm escaped you. That line was intended to mock the PC and Atari users of the mid-80's who repeated that line like a montra. I have had an Amiga for seven years, and I'm a senior analyst in my company's…
Tony, I used to sell stereos. You know how you sell stereos? "It has 100 watts per channel and the speakers are THIS BIG!" You know how you sell computers? "It has a Pentium processor and the hard drive is THIS BIG!" In other words, real need is irrelevant. The…
Rick, This is a tough one to reply accurately to… On the one hand, you are right about Windows programs being sloppy and inefficient. Micros**t is counting on users buying the necessary hardware to compensate for the most inefficient GUI money can buy. On the other hand, Windows software is…
#CEI/CBM Status
Message #173685
Arthur, If they are going to do that, I would hope they choose an expansion bus and STICK WITH IT. So far, we have had right sidecars (A1000), left sidecars (A500), Zorro II slots (A2000), Zorro III slots (A3000 and A4000), belly cars (A500), _different_ belly cars (A1200), and internal…
#A2200
Message #173684
John, I sometimes think that people are destined to never learn… Micros**t and Intel took over the computer world with an inadequate, complicated hardware design running a 16-bit version of CP/M. How? Because they had visibility, and they had a design that anyone could build. Apple was sole source on…
Mark, The home computer market has changed since the days of the Amiga 600. Intel is selling the Pentium as an entry level system, and it is working. I know at least two families that purchased new 60 MHz Pentium PC's as home computers. They "work great" for multimedia. You…
Wayne, I had a deal going with a local dealer where I would always try them first. If they could sell the item for mail order + 15%, I would buy from them. If they couldn't meet that price, I went mail order. I used Computability as my mail order…
#Amiga Connections
Message #173681
Arthur, Talk about inept. Now Intel is using "multimedia" to sell its CPU chips, while Commodore couldn't use multimedia to sell the premier multimedia computer. Sheesh! Just to ice the cake, IBM is selling OS/2 Warp on the strength of its multitasking (which, of course, IBM invented). But what does…
Transactor
Message #173680
Jim, Remember, I was asking my AmigaBasic question in the middle of a group of people I didn't know at the end of a presentation by one of the "greats" of Commodore computing. I didn't want to push it. Tab Trepagnier Cruising on AutoPilot from Beaumont, Texas
Transactor
Message #173679
Jim, "I'm a frayed know." Cute. No doubt this is all true. Sadly, while there is no bringing back the Transactor, at least I now know what happened, at least to my satisfaction. Thanks again to you and Malcolm for clearing up this mystery after all these years. Tab Trepagnier…
RISC
Message #173678
Mark, "The obvious problem with this would be the immediate lack of software for the machine." Not if implemented the way I described it. That is, with a Hardware Abstraction Layer (Micros**t's term) between the new hardware and the traditional Amiga API. That is what Apple is doing; that is…
I have been following the PowerPC saga since mid '92. The computer industry is in DESPERATE need for something better than Micros**t's dreary PC architecture. The Amiga has the *features* but not the visibility, support, or integration in today's networked infrastructure. And of course, now it's an orphan (at least…
#What's going on?
Message #165270
Eugene, I agree with you completely. We have been waiting a "few more weeks" since July! A few more weeks from now means end of October. That would leave a new owner only two months to sort out what they bought, ramp up production (of what?), and ship it to…
#Where credit is due
Message #160686
Steve, You hit the nail on the head! I demo'ed my A2000 twice to co-workers in a PC-centric corporation. In both cases, they were impressed. I currently have an A2000 set up at work in the midst of my 4 PC's. Even computer professionals are amazed at what an Amiga…