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| Posted by XDelusion on 10-Sep-2000 22:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 20 (StormLord):
Uhhh because Windows was the only OS available for cheap hardware back in the early 90's when computers really
started to take off, and people started taking them more serious. And because Microsoft did not give Amiga money
like they did to Apple, in exchange for the right to produce software for that platform. Also Apple has been
releaseing new Macs through out the years, and Amiga has not, though I must point out that Mac has become PC,
if you did not notice, Mac now has PCI, and should I mention that the new OS is being written for the x86 as well
as the PPC? Besides, we all know at this point that trying to get the world to change to our standard of platform is
never going to happen, you can tell a person 1 million times that if they buy an Amiga it will last 10/20 + years, but
a PC on the other hand, well you may be lucky to get 10, REAL lucky!!!
I am sorry, the consumer market is dominated not by people who care about quality, but about saving dollers, as the past
20 years has proved.
Now if only Amiga could have dropped a couple thousand off the price tag not to many years ago, then Amiga OS, would be the
one claiming the fame to Multi-Tasking, and User Friendlyness, 10 years before Windows, even began to emulate those options with
its Shared time, and blue screens of death, hell maybe even by now Amiga OS could be CRASH FREE!
But nope... :/
Anyhow it is like you said, we are all in this for phun! File formats have gotten too big for me to play MP3's and mutliple
sessions of Doom on even an old 50Mhz 060. And to be frank, I will never buy into a G4 for my 1200 unless it is only going to
cost me $300 or less, and will support all my current apps (I am sure I can dis-able it if I really wanted to sit around and watch those
old demos and classic games all day. So lets not worry about those and just be realistic. |
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