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- From: dcorn@1.1.1.16 (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.graphics
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 03:52:47 GMT
- Organization: On-Ramp; Individual Internet Connections; Dallas/Ft Worth/Houston, TX USA
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- On Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:48:53 +0200, Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com> wrote:
-
- >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
-
- Oh please! Why do you think Amiga users are running to buy real
- graphics cards based on technology from last year's PC cards? Amiga
- graphics and the 'custom chipset' stinks.
-
- >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,
-
- Run better? Define "run better" please. ... DECADES? :)
-
- >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.
-
- I think most people DO realize - that's why Commodore is no longer
- with us. Paying a premium for slower, older technology is foolish.
-