| [Web] Interview with Matthew Kille - AmigaOS 4.0 GUI Design | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 17-Jun-2003 18:03 GMT by Mike Bouma | 46 comments
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AmigaWorld.net has interviewed Matthew Kille, the founder of the software company Zeoneo and also the designer of the default AmigaOS4 graphical user-interface. His company developes both for AmigaOS4 and the AmigaDE.
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| Posted by gz on 19-Jun-2003 08:30 GMT | "Even under heavy load, an Amiga still feels responsive -- something which certain other operating systems with modern hardware can still fail to achieve."
I have to disagree with this one because you really cannot compare an amiga workload to a modern software workload on a pc. Should you ever try burning a 750mb file to cd while watching a dvd or divx movie along with winzip packing a file on the background and still be able to reasonably switch between windows or even drawing with a paint program, you would instantly see amigaOS crashing down in flames. This however can be done on a pc system albeit with the side effect of loosing some of the responsiveness but heck! That's just NORMAL when an os is under heavy tasks.
The respnsiveness we are used to get from amigaOS is partly due to the simple fact that there are usually no such heavy tasks run simultaneously on an amiga than people have got to used with doing at work with a pc. When working on a wintel system I leave programs open and running in the background all the time and at the end of the day, there are tens of windows open (webpages, programs, spreadsheets, archives, professional software etc.) and the machine still feels responsive enough for me to work on, even while it's not lightning fast anymore.
I'm not denying the fact that windows is bloatware of the maximum kind and lacks all sorts of optimizations. But It's also unfair to compare amigaOS to it and proud ourselves with the speed difference since there are no similar tasks and software enough to REALISTICALLY do this kind of comparing. I find my os3.5 very fast and I like using it, but if I would perform the aforementioned operations on it it would stop being responsive right there like a car to a brickwall and that's a fact.
I think that the exaggeration of the speed of the amigaOS is also partly due to the fairly low selfesteem of amigans. Lets face it. Our selfesteem has been running low ever since the pc scene started taking over. I remember myself being out there touting how amiga is superior to a pc because it has blitter and copper, etc and that it can have 4096 colours, while on the back of my head knowing that even while everything about blitter and copper were true, the pc still had doom running on it with 256 colours and me having shadow of the beast3 with 16 REAL colours and about 160 maybe onscreen at once at best.
Same thing goes to amigaOS. We want to think it's somehow far superior to other os's because we are emotionally attached to it. Yet at the same time we complain lacking features that exist on other os's and when such features are ported we again praise how we can do this and that with amigaOS and that how amiga like it is.
There are very good merits on amigaOS, but it has serious flaws aswell and due to the above mentioned reasons I don't find a realistic speed comparison between amigaOS and other Os's possible (at least not at the moment). |
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