| Today Is AMIGA 25th Anniversary! | page 1 2
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Bartek "Banter" K.
Poland
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Posts 2277
23 Jul 2010 20:13
| Exactly 25 years ago AMIGA 1000 was presented in New York's Lincoln Center, where famous Andy Warhol laid the foundations of computer art with this new, amazing computer. Hooray! Let us hope next 25 years will be even more exciting with NATAMI! All the best to AMIGA fans all over the world!
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Joe M
Norway
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Posts 500
23 Jul 2010 20:26
| Happy birthday, AMIGA! :-)
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Richard Maudsley
United Kingdom
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Posts 821
23 Jul 2010 20:38
| *plugs in a500* I'm awake! I'm awake! Amiga can rent a car now, good!
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Istvan Szekeres
Hungary
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Posts 60
23 Jul 2010 23:34
| Happy Birthday AMIGA! R.I.P Jay Miner!
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Ayodele Stephenson
USA
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Posts 83
23 Jul 2010 23:57
| Yes... Happy Birthday to the Amiga and all those who have followed this branch of History into the future!!
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Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands
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Posts 3979
24 Jul 2010 06:44
| May the next incarnation create a revolution!
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
24 Jul 2010 11:25
| Maybe. First incarnation would be todays standard if it would not be owned by commodore.
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Richard Maudsley
United Kingdom
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Posts 821
24 Jul 2010 12:44
| Wojtek P wrote:
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Maybe. First incarnation would be todays standard if it would not be owned by commodore.
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Nah, for a computer platform to become the standard today, it needs to be suitable for both home and business. And I don't think company X would like to use a system with no concept of multiple users or admins/users, Or the fact that something the secretary takes in from home could potentially own the whole network. Truth hurts, don't it? Ahh well.
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
24 Jul 2010 16:35
| You mean that system that is most often used in "business" does have working multiple users and it is actually used as it? So please tell me where you see that.
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Richard Maudsley
United Kingdom
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Posts 821
24 Jul 2010 23:00
| Anywhere and everywhere? In buisness, not only do they need systems that require multiple accounts, both admin and noob-mode; they need them to be able to log in from a server as well. Thats pretty much everywhere from schools, to goverment offices, to businesses. Even in the win3.x era, there was atleast third party software to provide this functionality. I've never seen a PC or Mac in these enviroments that isn't set up this way, unless it isn't part of the network. Want some examples? here: The computers at my college.
The tills at the shop I bought my computer from.
The post office.
Any ATM I've ever used (do people really think they run OS/2? What is this, 1993?)
Come to think of it, any bank computers.
The town's old mainframe (woo terminals)
The libraries' computer they let you use to look up books (what's the term?) etc... If these didn't have multiple users, Admin/user seperation they'd be screwed up in a week, one way or another.
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Evil Igel
Germany
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Posts 154
25 Jul 2010 02:21
| Congratulations, dear AMIGA!!! Oh, what a grateful and precious time we had! And the best of it: we STILL have, even without an real existing Natami yet! I am actually finished a party here and 10 years old kids really had enjoyed Dynablaster, Pacman, Traps N Treasures and Knock Off (an freeware carracing-battle game) without knowing this machine, Commodore or even the time all this was build in!
They were really fascinating and addicted to that games and in now why: they are TRUE essential statements of outstanding gameplay! Today you can get EVERYTHING in graphics and stuff but what is truly important is what lies beneath! I wish and i hope that upcoming developers for the Natami follow this philosophy!
Who needs PS3-Graphics without heart and soul?? The world needs addictive games! As i have seen today: it needs an new AMIGA!
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Richard Maudsley
United Kingdom
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Posts 821
25 Jul 2010 02:58
| Celibrated by playing gods... Probably hit ctrl+a+a about 10 times just for the intro music. Only amiga made it possible.
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Peter K.
Germany
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Posts 439
25 Jul 2010 09:24
| Richard Maudsley wrote:
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...company X would like to use a system with no concept of multiple users or admins/users,
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Even if I don't want to promote AmigaOS for office use, MultiUser
worked well many years ago: EXTERNAL LINK
We had this running at an Amiga 2000 at our university btw! :)
Richard Maudsley wrote:
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Or the fact that something the secretary takes in from home could potentially own the whole network.
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Thanks to M$ Win this is happening often enough: To reduce
the risk dramatically, one can already use GNU/Linux or OSX,
but business does't always chose quality.
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
25 Jul 2010 09:34
| Richard Maudsley wrote:
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Celibrated by playing gods...
Probably hit ctrl+a+a about 10 times just for the intro music. Only amiga made it possible.
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Are you OK???
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Wojtek P
Poland
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Posts 1597
25 Jul 2010 09:36
| @Peter Today it's always one user per computer, it's Personal Computer anyway.
At least in offices. Everyone have it's own.
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Thanks to M$ Win this is happening often enough: To reduce
the risk dramatically, one can already use GNU/Linux or OSX,
but business does't always chose quality.
------------- Why do you care about it. Computer software and hardware is a free market.
People use what they want, and buy what they want. And got exactly what they deserve.
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Peter K.
Germany
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Posts 439
25 Jul 2010 11:31
| Wojtek P wrote:
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People use what they want, and buy what they want. And got exactly what they deserve.
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I just described how it is. Talking about office a user most often has not the freedom
to chose what to use, but decision takers enforce him to.
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Thierry Atheist
Canada
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Posts 1830
26 Jul 2010 07:36
| I've absolutely HAD IT with this "multi-user" BS!!!!! THERE'S NO NEED FOR IT ANYMORE!!!!!! THAT'S YESTERDAY THINKING, YOU LUDDITES! Have no hard drive AT ALL!!!!! Just have a DVD-RW and CF or USB flash cards..... All else is transfered from network to your card no matter which generic workstation you go to. Your USB key has "you" on it.... Which ever computer you sign onto is YOUR computer, no priors remain! You start the computer and the computer at the other end of the network asks who you are, and nothing is allowed by the common person to do, that may endanger the entire system.... Allow NO custom programs to run on the server. And allow only 3 log on attempts from any terminal every 3 minutes. Keep track of who tries to make too many log on attempts. Remember, this is the SERVER allowing logging in. Your computer just is running anything you have up and need to do. Why doesn't this work? NO ONE HAS MADE IT YET.... That's all. A closed system and AOS can EASILY cater for this. It's NOT rocket science.
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Thierry Atheist
Canada
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Posts 1830
26 Jul 2010 07:51
| Anyhow, the GREATEST COMPUTER THAT HAS EVER EXISTED is TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD!!!!!!!! HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!! Amiga and NatAmi........ Going for the GOLD! I _do not want_ the alternatives, they SUCK BIG TIME, are NOT "FUN" are GARBAGE..... I don't want no iFad APPLIANCE, Macs are like blenders, waffle irons or counter top bread makers. iFad is a GLORIFIED PDA; an Etch-a-Sketch/Light Bright, 21st century style! ONLY AMIGA is a PERSONAL COMPUTER!!!!!!!!!!! Many do not know that this IS what they want!!!!!!!! iFad FORM FACTOR is FANTASTIC though..... Yes, NatAmi in the Amiga Phantasy, netbook, iFad, and Pandora (Jornada 720) and wristwatch form factors WOULD ROCK THIS PLANET!!!!!!!! Imagine if EVERY ONE OF THOSE could be for sale at $100 to $400US!!!!!
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Middleton Mike
United Kingdom
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Posts 106
26 Jul 2010 08:47
| I can't belive it's 25 this year, scary prospect. Though the future's not been brighter. NatAmi could be a catalyst to bring the Amiga back and with the tending move towards thin client technology and web-based apps and logins, multi-user support on the actual client will be as irrelevant as punch-cards in a few years so you never know, this could be a great chance for the Amiga to rise from the ashes! I can't wait personally.
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Richard Maudsley
United Kingdom
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Posts 821
26 Jul 2010 12:18
| Thierry Atheist wrote:
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Just have a DVD-RW and CF or USB flash cards..... |
This hasn't happened because its dumb. Lose your flash drive? well, too bad.Thierry Atheist wrote:
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Anyhow, the GREATEST COMPUTER THAT HAS EVER EXISTED is TWENTY FIVE YEARS OLD!!!!!!!!
HOORAY!!!!!!!!!!!! |
What, the NeXT Cube anniversary isn't for another three years yet... :-D Has anyone seen my pills? Its just that giraffe is following me again.
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