🚀 go-pugleaf

Steve Sheldon wrote:
> 
> In <Pine.NXT.3.91.960102034151.14397A-100000@linex> John Slade <hherndon@motown.com> writes:
> 
> >>  What a crock.:-)  Everyone knows that everytime MS upgrades that bloated
> >> OS called Windows, it gets slower. If it didn't, the clone fans wouldn't
> >> be drooling all over Pentium Pros.
> 
>  It does?  Amazing...
> 
> >>  Now the Amigas OS (OTHO) does get faster with updates. Anyone going from
> >> AmigaOS 1.3 to 3.1 can tell you that the performance of their system
> >> improved. Anyone going from Win2 to Win(whatever) can tell you of hardware
> >> upgrade stories.
> 
>  Of course, the tricky part is convincing a bankrupt company to produce
> updates...
> 
> >>  The bloat in Microsoft Windows code has done more to improve the Intel
> >> chips then anyone wanting the apps on the system to run faster (which is
> >> just a nice side affect.)
> 
>  Really?
> 
> >>  Throw enough hardware at something, and you can get  *any* piece of
> >> software to run faster. I guess this makes up for bad/sloppy code. :-)
> 
>  Of course all of those features are just a nasty side effect.
> 
> >>  Microsoft is the only company _I_ know of that has 80 million Beta
> >> testers and still can't get it right!
> 
>  Of course Microsoft is making money.  Where exactly is Commodore sitting
> today?
> 
> >   I've used Amigas, Macs and IBM clones. The best OS I've worked with is
> >AmigaDOS. I know it doesn't have all the software but the OS is slammin!
> >Macs and Window

Microsoft only makes their money b/c of advertisement and inflated 
prices.  Apple/Mac would have been better off now if they had publicized 
their code earlier so more software would be available.  Microsoft also 
is well off financially b/c of their monopoly with vendors (Packard Bell 
and all those piece of crap store computers).  Packard Bell is sort of 
like Windows, though.  Their computers were built soley for 
advertisement.  Two businessmen (I think 2, but not sure) got a few 
computer engineers together and told them to come up with the cheapest 
computer they could build that would actually work.  They then had to 
come up with a good name.  So, they took the Packard (sp?) out of Hewlett 
Packard and the Bell from Ma Bell (obviously) trying to get people to 
think that the PB was a merger between HP and Bell Phones.  They're now 
one of the best selling computers for people first buying a computer b/c 
they're at WalMart's and KMart's all over.

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