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RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

mjb-is — Tue, 27 Sep 2005 13:06:15 GMT

The Amiga was certainly great for proper pre-emptive multi-tasking. Something the PC still doesn't do as good now.

My first Amiga was an A500 and I remember paying almost £400 for my first hard drive. A GVP8+ 40Mb drive. Eventually added 2Mb FAST RAM to it when it was £50 per Mb.

After that I had an A2000 with a 120Mb drive and a Commodre CD-ROM drive attached to the A500 and then a ParNet cable linking the two.

Round about that time I first started with PC's with a 286 in a mini-tower and a 120Mb drive and 8Mb RAM running DOS.

Those were the days.

RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

Sticky Mick — Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:14:54 GMT

A feature of the very first Amigas called multi-tasking.

I remember a mate of mine asked me round to his house, way back in the dark ages of the 486, he started mucking about with his PC, chucked a CD into the CD drive started CDPlayer and then printed a Word document and said "How`s that for multi-tasking?" I couldn`t contain my laughter

RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

10p_to_continue — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:51:04 GMT

It looks awesome.

RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

LittleJohnSW — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 05:00:20 GMT

Something I'd like to add, I get the feeling windows would fall flat on it's a** trying to do all that at once....

RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

Mikey C — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:51:12 GMT

The Ability to Drag Screens for starters, with no apparent loss of processing power.

Screen Dragging was a trick that the Old Amiga Computers could do where you could, for example, have a 320x320 screen running, open a 640x480 screen and also run it's own screen, whilst say your Workbench (PC=Desktop) was at 1024x768

This was down to the legendary Amiga custom chip sets. A lot of people said that you couldn't duplicate this feature in modern graphics cards.

Well, there you have it, you can.

RE: Windoze Can't Do This :-)

SnowBum — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:32:11 GMT

I watched it and wasn't sure of the features you were trying to show. Can you point it/them out to me.

Windoze Can't Do This :-)

Mikey C — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:40:44 GMT

Enjoy :-)

http://uniweb.free.fr/os4videos/os4intuition.avi

(Warning 13mb Download, it's cool though and well worth it)