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- In article <3k24nl$p3a@news.xmission.com> dingebre@xmission.xmission.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
- >From: dingebre@xmission.xmission.com (David Ingebretsen)
- >Subject: Re: To those who are leaving the Amiga!
- >Date: 13 Mar 1995 19:00:05 GMT
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- >Walter (Jay) Turberville (wturber@primenet.com) wrote:
- >: [snip]
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- >: >If the PC's so great, why didn't Allen and Stuart write LightWave for it
- >: >to start with?
-
- >: No cheap Pentiums back then.
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- >But there were cheap clones that were comparable in speed to current
- >Amiga's. Question still stands :)
-
- >--
- >David
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- Right! Comparable, but not clearly faster.
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- Actually, I'll stop being flip. The advantage of the Amiga as I understand it
- was the superior multitasking OS (I'm a PC guy, and I readily admit the Amiga
- OS is a superior multitasker to PC/Windows - tho I think Windows is more
- feature rich) and the special function chips. The superior OS made something
- like the Toaster with its various "slices" viable.
-
- Today, the Intel processor is a complete generation ahead of the Motorola
- 68000 series. Where is the clock doubled 040? Tripled? The 060 isn't in the
- Amiga marketplace from what I have seen. This why the Mac HAD to move to
- PowerPC if it was going to survive. The Amiga would have to do similarly, but
- we can see that that is unlikely.
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