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- From: Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com>
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:48:53 +0200
- Organization: Sapiens Technologies
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- Steve Koren wrote:
- >
- > somebody@clinet.fi (Juha Vanhanen) wrote:
- >
- > > Let it be anything you want. A stock AGA Amiga can handle 800x600, too,
- > > and with a Gfx-card resolutions you can't even imagine. No offense.
- >
- > Also no offense, but you are a bit confused. The Amiga gfx-cards use PC
- > graphics chips such as the S3. So it is incorrect to say the Amiga
- > resolution "cannot be imagined" by a PC user. Such resolutions are
- > *far* more common to PCs than to Amigas, supported by more software, and
- > moreoever, the newer PC chips are much faster than the ones used in
- > Amiga graphics cards.
- >
- > - steve
-
- i'll keep with the "no offense" tradition and start by asking, are you comparing an Amiga to a
- PC?? boy you are a making a mistake and a BIG one cuz the amiga was and still is multimedia
- oriented more than any other personal computer and especially when it comes to the PC. in the
- PC everything has to have some CPU intervention while in the Amiga the CPU doesn't even handle
- a byte when it's related to graphics display, there are advanced support chips reponsible for
- relieving the CPU of such tasks and thus true multitasking is very much possible on the amiga
- than on the PC. the PC centrelises everything around the CPU and thus the CPU is more busy
- doing housekeeping jobs than actual processing while 60Mhz Amiga can run better than a P120 on
- most conditions. the PC is decades behind the Amiga and when PowerAmiga comes to the scene,
- hell you'll be ancient history, something to remember the old days when the computers were
- being developed, believe me no Amiga owner was ever dissapointed s/he bought the machine, try
- working even with a basic A500 and see the difference and don't compare the 2 machince by thier
- software support cuz that ain't a good measure, try running some benchmarks on a PC and an
- Amiga and you'll see the difference.
-