> > So I'm a bit jumpy. I've had a few lately take my humor as if I
> > meant it. Even as obvious as that one was.
>
> Only on the second look. That was why I had to laugh, it was
> cleverly
> disguised and almost dropped me into despair.

I've been told I have a rather dry sense of humor, but then I do
pratfalls, too.

> The management of C= was a real PITA - without them the Amiga
> would be in
> a better position now, and maybe C= could have survived. "Get out
> of this
> world with Amiga - follow NASA."

If it happened now, Medhi Ali and Irving Gould would be in court
next to Enron and Tyco executives.

> > I laboriously and carefully desoldered the edge connector and
> > reconnected it with 2 inches of ribbon cable, and hot glued the
> RAM
> > pack face down on the top of my ZX-81. And built an 8V
> regulated
> > power supply for it, to cut down on the heat produced by the
> 7805
> > 5V regulator inside.
>
> Now you almost lost me - did that RAM pack really have a voltage
> ragulator
> inside? I had no idea - but I did consider doing the same, I mean
> doing
> the ribbon cable trick, just that I was too lazy for these
> things. I'm

Sorry, that was ambiguous. I meant the 5V regulator in the bottom
of the ZX-81.

> more of a software person. As in: How many programmers does it
> take to
> change a lightbulb?

None but the burnt out bulbs must be Microsoft bulbs. Microsoft
embraced and extended darkness as a standard, so darkness is now
protected under the DMCA so it is against the law for anyone but
Microsoft to change the bulb. Hmm... that was a long way to go for
very little punch line, wasn't it? ;')

> I just find it a bit sad that they are now trying to turn OS4
> into
> something like Linux - with all the overheads that will produce.
> Their
> excuse is that memory protection is "more advanced". I believe
> that
> writing proper software that doesn't poke indiscriminately into
> public
> memory and crash the machine, is more advanced.

Yeah, Linux on my wife's 450MHz with 256M of RAM is glacially slow,
I think a bit slower even than MS W98. Yet when I boot up WinUAE,
it flies as an Amiga.

A friend of mine used to be an Amiga developer. He was anal about
not allowing any software that breaks memory rules. He had Amigas
that hadn't been rebooted in years!

> > I don't know, I really pushed my Amiga 3000 and it didn't have
> > these problems. I did some phenominal things that I took for
> > granted, that bring my W2K computer to it's knees. Print an
> 11x17
> > inkjet while downloading some large files, and while it's
> putting
> > the print in the buffer it pauses several times and becomes
> > virtually unuseable, even if all I'm doing is reading email or
> > typing a letter. I used to do a lot more than that on my Amiga.
>
> Yep, I often play mp3s while doing other things - without it
> intruding in
> the slightest - but then I have a Delfina DSP card with the
> decoder
> running on the DSP. Original Amiga psychology to use custom chips
> for
> custom jobs.

And people don't realize that every Wintel clone out there is
filled with Commodore patents for Amiga designs.

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