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- From: pdtaylor@primenet.com (Daniel L. Taylor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Upgrade my Amiga or buy a Pentium?
- Date: 2 Mar 1996 00:58:02 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
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-
- Of the people that I see regularly, I have Amiga, PC and Mac owners, so
- this is a summary.
-
- If you want a game machine (ONLY) that gets them first, or if you have
- some PC software that you are required to use and want to be able to
- do some work at home, then get the best PC you can afford. VESA video,
- minimum, PCI preferred. IDE is OK, if compared to a non-bus master SCSI,
- or if you get a bus master PCI or VESA; the extended IDE on newer PCs
- doesn't have much trouble with 1G+ disks and the CDROM drives (ATAPI
- only) are cheaper and just as fast. You'll probably have to have 16
- Mbytes of RAM, but be willing to buy a slower Pentium (or AmGen!) and
- spend more on the video and RAM if you have to trade off.
-
- Good all-'round machine, much simpler to set up, can run PC/Windows
- programs with, or without, hardware assist, faster clock-for-clock
- than the 'tel-family chips, multiple vendors - PowerPC mac. There
- are some good deals on the 6200 now, but if you're not in a hurry,
- there's a new family due later this year that should be able to run
- your choice of Mac's OS, AIX (IBM UNIX variant), Solaris 2 (Sun UNIX
- variant), and NT. They may be pricier at first, but should be more
- sustainable in the long run.
-
- If you've been happy with your Amiga, ask yourself why you want to
- change. If it's just bragging rights, tell them that when their
- systems have real true multitasking operating systems, like yours
- does, and an interprocess communication mechanism even 10% as powerful
- as AREXX (the OLE, etc. doesn't begin to support the off-line
- inter-task capability or AREXX ports), then you'll have to consider
- buying something else. If there are some applications that you
- want/need that aren't available on the Amiga, and don't look like
- they're going to be, then buy what runs those apps.
-
- Dan
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