4 Jul
2001
4 Jul
'01
9 a.m.
Thanks Iggy, I knew you'd reply to my query!
It really doesn't add much overhead compared to
3.1. It occupies more space,
though not necessarily more than the heavily patched systems most 3.0/3.1
people run.
Is it a big enough jump? Well, certainly a big jump from the stock 3.1
installation, but it really is a 3.x system with a lot of bells and whistles.
I certainly like the new HDToolBox, in case you run drives over 4 GB, and
over-all, you're spared from the headache of considering whayt patches to run,
since all such functionality is in the box from the beginning.
And if you run 3.9, you get media players and a nice TCP/IP stack which
otherwise cost money.
Thanks, as I was concerned about all the stuff they added to
it slowing it down. It's likely a stock A3000 would have trouble
with some of the media players, such as MP3, but that's ok. It'll be
interesting to see how the included TCP/IP stack compares to Miami.
Until I moved off of Amiga's for my main system, I had Miami, YAM,
Amirc, the works running on it and was a registered user of all of
them.
OTOH, it's a lot more fun to run once you've
got a graphics card. But so is
everything.
It looks like I'm finally getting another A3000 with a GVP
Spectrum, which is the setup I had back in '94/95 until I damaged it
while messing with getting an A3640 working in it. I always liked
the Spectrum, even when using the EGS RTG software it shipped with,
which is what I used with it even after I moved it to an A4000. In
'99 I sold my A4000 and switched to Mac's for my main system but have
continued to miss the A3000. In many ways, it was a much better
machine than the A4000.
Jeff
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