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- From: "Michael M. Rye" <1726@topcity.mn.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: 4 Mar 1996 21:02:55 GMT
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- Joaquin_Menchaca@quickmail.apple.com (Joaquin Menchaca) wrote:
- In article <hwollman-2602961155360001@hwollman.mitre.org>,
- hwollman@mitre.org (Herbert Wollman) wrote:
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- >> 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?
- --
- For your information, the 68000 is a 32 bit chip, but only internally.
- It uses 24 bits internally for addressing, and the other 8 bits for
- something else that I can't remember. It's only 16 bit externally.
- AmigaOS always was/will be 32 bit. And what does 7 MHz have to do with
- anything? You think it can't multitask because it's only 7 MHz???
- If you think that, you need professional help or something.
- Example: Tandy CoCo 3 at only *2* MHz running OS/9 multitasks just
- fine, although you better have the memory expanded to 512K. I know,
- because I have one.
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