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> + On 10-Jan-03 02:02:04
 +Paul Gable <gremlinamiga@bigfoot.com> wrote

>Hi Glenn,

>> 
>> I have to ask, do you know ANYTHING at all about the AmigaOne ?
>> or do you ONLY know the name ? ..judging by your post it looks like
>> you only know the name and nothing more, if so you better learn
>> a bit about what you troll about or shut up so you don't look so stupid..
>> 
>> 
>> ...Personally I'm not going to buy an AmigaOne before there is AmigaOS for
>> it, when it is I probably buy one if the price is fairly ok.
>> 
>No offense but isn't this a newsgroup where people post their
>opinions? My opinions may differ from yours but the last time I

It's actually mainly for discussing Amiga hardware.

And I didn't hit on your opinoins, I mainly hit on the fact that
you had incorrect facts wich you built your opinions on.

>checked, that is the point of a discussion group!!! There was once a
>14 part exchange on this very newsgroup where two people were arguing
>about the quality or lack of quality of Chinon and third party floppy
>drives!! At least my post was on something that is current and

Wich IS Amiga hardware.. so it's fairly on topic, even if it might be
boring to read for people not interested in it (as any discussion.)

>actually matters.  Besides I am not the only one who feels this way as
>I have read many others people's posts on how they feel the A1 is
>going to be a flop. I have only one more question. What is it that

"Everyone" said that A1200 would be a flop too, "just a stripped down
A4000 without AAA and SCSI" and so on..

My point is that you dont KNOW before it actually happens.

>makes this computer an Amiga? IMHO, it is just a PPC computer. Not
>really an Amiga at all except in name. Am I far off base here? I
>think not. 

THAT, is a personal opinion that can be discussed, *my* personal opinion
is that the Amiga is the customchips+OS, however the main reason that
I still use the Amiga is that I have alot of nice programs that I don't
have on other platforms (YAM,Thor,CED,AmIRC,Dopus,Brilliance and so on)
and that I know the OS like my own pocket.. 

I work with computers all days (mainly Solaris and Linux) and it always
feels nice to use my Amiga when I come home.. its an always working
environment that I trust and like.. it have it's disavantages (lack of
memoryprotection and resourcetracking mainly) but it's still the best
system for ME, on my personal workstation. (for a server I would choose
solaris instead.)

So, a new PPC-based machine running AmigaOS4 and compatible with my old
software (I use almost only systemlegal software) would be perfect for
me, so I wait and see.



(I also have alot of other machines home, SGI Indy, a Quad CPU solarismachine,
a HP Apollo workstation running HPUX, a dual CPU linuxbox and yes, even
a windowsmachine.. still use the Amiga most of the time :)