Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Mostly because even on a PC with hardware far 
>> in advance of what the Amiga has, Windows was *vastly* slower.
> 
>   Far in advance? 12MHz CPU (if you were rich), no hardware graphics
> acceleration of any kind, 16 colors (again, if you were rich)... How is
> that "far in advance of what the Amiga has"?

Because the PCs at college had 133 MHz CPUs and 32 MB of RAM - multiple 
times the Amiga's 7 MHz CPU (admittedly of completely different design) 
and 2 MB of RAM. And yet, on such a machine, even something as simple as 
closing a window causes huge amounts of disk thrashing.

>   Even Windows can't do magic if it doesn't have the graphics hardware
> acceleration support.

It didn't seem to me that that was the problem. Lacking graphics 
hardware acceleration doesn't make the HD thrash. And anyway, I thought 
the original VGA board had 2D acceleration?

>   Oh, you are not comparing PC's of the time, but more modern PC's?

PCs today have finally reached the point where they're about as fast as 
an Amiga for basic windowing operations. But it's taken an awfully long 
time.

>> (Today of 
>> course, Windows is, as far as I can tell, the most useable OS available, 
>> whether you like it or not. Linux is a nice idea, but sadly it's too 
>> hard to use.)
> 
>   Yeah, that's probably why I use Linux 99% of the time, while I use Windows
> only for playing PC games. I must be a masochist.

Or you know something I don't. (Such as... how to operate Linux.)

>   Honestly, I just can't do *anything* in Windows, other than play games or
> perhaps watch multimedia (if I don't happen to be in Linux just then).

That pretty much describes me and Linux. Even something trivial like 
configuring a network interface without DHCP seems excruciatingly hard 
in Linux. (As best as I can tell, you have to hand-edit half a dozen 
files, invoke cryptic commands, and so forth. It's a nightmare.) Under 
Windows, you just right-click on the network interface and type in what 
you want the settings to be.

> Trying to eg. develop anything is just a pain.

Presumably that depends on what you're trying to develop, and with that. 
Certainly Windows is not designed with developers in mind.

> I'm always hindered by not
> being able to do things I can easily do in Linux. Heck, even just finding
> a file with a certain string is so damn hard in Windows, not to talk about
> anything more advanced than that.

...why in the name of god would you ever want to do such a thing? And 
wouldn't that require reading every individual byte of data on the 
entire HD anyway, regardless of OS?

>   (Yeah yeah, I know, you can do everything you can do in Linux and far more.
> There are all these fancy scripting languages and whatnot, which you might be
> able to use if you install something and something else. Nothing really
> consistent, and always a pain.)

I'm not a fan of scripting languages. They tend to be too ugly and 
messy. Besides, I've never found anything I wanted to script [which is 
actually scriptable]...

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