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- From: Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 05:27:00 GMT
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, California
- Message-ID: <Joaquin_Menchaca-0103962126590001@17.127.19.156>
- References: <4glavu$dlq@hasle.sn.no> <4glb5c$dlq@hasle.sn.no> <hwollman-2602961155360001@hwollman.mitre.org>
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- In article <hwollman-2602961155360001@hwollman.mitre.org>,
- hwollman@mitre.org (Herbert Wollman) wrote:
-
- > In article <4glb5c$dlq@hasle.sn.no>, egilberg@oslonett.no wrote:
- >
- > > Why is the Amiga 500 better than the PC (for playing games)?
- >
- > The Amiga is better than the PC (for playing games) because IT WAS
- > DESIGNED to be the "absolute Killer Game Machine", then converted into a
- > computer when the game market dried up. Games are usually graphics
- > intensive, real-time simulations, and everything about the Amiga was
- > designed to work together as a system to do this very well. The operating
- > system, memory management, custom hardware, etc. all work together
- > smoothly and efficiently to provide 32 bit real-time multitasking and
- > video.
- >
- Really 32bit real-time multitasking. How is that done on a 16bit 7Mhz
- 68000 processor?
-