CompuServe Messages

PMFJI here, but: "Amiga technology uses chip processes that are out of date." Unless you're referring to the manufacturing processes which are inconsequential, I have to ask: Are you kidding? Fast as a Pentium is, strong as OS/2 is, good as SVGA is, to date the PC world _still_ hasn't even figured out the Video Interrupt Chip, so old that it pre-dates the Amiga itself (like I have to tell _you_ this), yet so _intrinsic_ to the nature of a (shudder) Windowed environment that We Who Must Use Other Platforms can't _imagine_ why closing a requester-window should leave a blank spot on the screen that has to be re-drawn. I'd say it's the PC world that's about ten years behind…. Maybe IBM will get off its petrified butt and design a new desktop computer with an _integrated_ hardware/software design, like the Amiga had … something like OS/2 on a PS/2 … uhh … never mind…. "The problem with owning an Amiga is that it lets you think." Mr. C