Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 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.

  You are blaming Windows for something that the applications do (iow.
consume lots of memory)?

  If anything, you could blame Windows developers for being lazier or less
competent than Amiga developers, and I wouldn't have much to argue about
that. However, I don't really buy this "Windows was *vastly* slower than
Amiga, even though the hardware was considerably more advanced".

> >   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.

  Then you have either lied about trying OpenSUSE, or you have never even
opened Yast. Or you are exaggerating on purpose, for whatever reason.

> Under 
> Windows, you just right-click on the network interface and type in what 
> you want the settings to be.

  Exactly how this is relevantly different from Yast?

> > 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?

  That sounds such a "window'ish" question.

> And 
> wouldn't that require reading every individual byte of data on the 
> entire HD anyway, regardless of OS?

  You know, not every search must be done on every single file in the system.
You can actually limit searches to certain directories. Even in Windows.

  Ever heard of the magical word "grep"? Do you know what it's used for in
unix systems? If yes, and you understand why this utility has existed for,
like, forever, then why are you asking "why would you evern want to do such
a thing"?

  Maybe you don't need to search files containing a certain string, but many
other people do.

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                                                          - Warp

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