Re: Choosing a DTP

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Mr John FO Evans <mijas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> hat geschrieben:

In article <f590733b50.noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Alex' A. Interrants"
<bavariasound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes and we use it under windows as well as under RISCOS - in fact most
of
our printing is done from the windows version because it is faster. But
it
is still a RISCOS inspired program which would probably never have been
written directly for windows.

May be it's time to collect all these ideas and spread / make public
them: 'The idea of computing'! There are a lot of good ideas around
which are likely to lost. I don't think it's so much RISC OS instead
of the many ideas and philosophy behind.

Computing is just consuming anymore. That's sad.

Thank you for those comments. So many people write off RISC OS because it
runs on slower machines or emulation and forget that it was originally
developed by a team who had new and fresh ideas about how a computer should
work.

There had been around other machines with great ideas, too (Psion for
example).

From that starting point software developers were inspired to write
programs with equally new and fresh ideas. For example Draw with its cubic
splines (That is what I call them - I was using them for simple graphics and
text on HP1000 machines even before !Draw). Ovation Pro is still the best
all-round DTP I have ever used and is often faster than anything on a PC up
to the printing stage - not forgetting also the earlier Impression.

Add to all that the simple installation of programs and the packaging of
(almost) all the related data within a program directory - which eliminates
the need for the permanent and vulnerable registry of Windows.

Problem of men is that they imitate each other. There are rare people
who really come with new and fresh ideas and will be accept by others.

Now if someone would come up with a 2GHz Arm processor in a package
resembling the A9 or a laptop - WOW!

Developing teams are too small and systems too complex nowadays. There
is also the speed companies introduce new hardware on market and
give-up old hardware. Before someone can come out with a new machine
the parts of suppliers are already gone. I don't think there would be
a need for a new machine with 2 GHz ARM because all new machines in
the past came with problems of compatiblity. Why didn't produced
someone faster processor-cards for the RISC PC instead of faster,
newer machines what did cost a lot of developing-time and money?

But all this is senseless without a good marketing. That's the part
Microsoft ist doubtless winner in, notwithstanding how bad their
products are and how they deal with their customers (just compare the
BASIC of Amiga or C64 which had been produced by Microsoft to software
other people wrote for and replaced these!).

Sale is more important as intelligent technique because many people
don't understand even much of it.

As you imply, the alternative is even more powerful PC's using multi-CPU's
burning carbon without restraint and running disc intensive and relatively
inefficient software.

I believe that the computing world needs a compeletly fresh approach to
machines, operating systems and software - instead of heaping complexity
onto the rather ancient Windows and Unix systems. In that context RISCOS may
not be ideal but it was a fresh look at the problem.

Talents are working on much but all the work had disappeared in the
underground. You don't read anymore in the public media as Microsoft,
Apple and sometimes Linux. The talents are also splitted into many
seperate groups which don't know each other.

NB The pundits often come up with the need for multi-threading etc. Perhaps
a new look would come up with the real requirements for today and ensure
that everyday needs were met first.

Many people like computers which are very simple to understand and to
serve and find out that Windows or even Linux or UNIX are too complex
to them. The obstacle is that a lot of computer producers in the past
had rebound the customers with give up of their business or bad
support or there is even no support by other people around or mass
media. However, there is no doubt there is a space (I do deliberately
not write 'market' in this case) for something fresh and new.

Sometimes the design and handle of a product is even much more
important as the speed. Just compare the keyboard of old Psion
computers with the Pandora or the joystickports of the C64 with the
RISC OS Computers to the kind of use (games or office) and you will
understand what I mean. It is often so simple but scientist are so
obsessed of their ideas that they don't recognize the real needs of
men and tread on them.

[snip]

Alex'

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Sent from a Kinetic Risc PC, runnin RISC OS 4.02
Venusberg, European Alps (693 m above sea level)
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