CompuServe Messages

As a long time Amiga owner, I favor the Amiga heavily, however, some of your examples are misleading. >> I pick up a magazine (pc mag.) and i read through it, you know it >> seems to me that the ibm system is not that stable. 286, 386, >> 486 then the pentium now you have the powerpc that is alot of money >> being spent sooner or later people are going to get sick of it. The above is _not_ a drawback…. The 286's ran the 8088 software, the 386's ran 286 software, and the 486 runs 386 software. The only time there were any problems were when MS Dos went from 1.25 to 2.0 (the new subdirectories confused some software.), and when the high speed 486's came out, some software broke because it was not written with high speed chips in mind, and at the same time broke programming rules. (It did direct accesses to hardware, and used loops for timing, thus it tried to do things with controllers and video boards, before the hardware could get ready.) Other than that, they have been highly backwards compatible. We, unfortunately cannot say the same thing. The 3000 chokes on a lot of software that ran perfectly fine on the 2000. The 4000 is better, but still chokes on some software. Each operating system revison brings new comatibility problems. Much more so than it did for those other guys. (Though our operating system is also more advanced, which is why I tolerated such problems in the first place.) My heart is with Amiga, but MS Dos, and Dos boxes aren't junk. They can number crunch with the best of us, and they really only lack good multitasking, and animation capabilities. By, and large their productivity software if very superior. (Especailly spreadsheets and databases.) I hate that we are in the situation that we are in today, but it is not the fault of IBM, Intel, Apple, or Microsoft. (Unless you consider superior marketing, and customer support to be evdience of resposiblity for Commodore's demise.)