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- From: img4@aber.ac.uk (Ian Gledhill)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 00:41:19 GMT
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- In article <3148e90b.51077265@1.1.1.16> dcorn@1.1.1.16 (David Corn) writes:
- > 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.
- >
- The Trio-64 chipset as used in my CV64 card is not last year's PC tech...
- it's faster than many PC cards. Check your information.
-
- > >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? :)
-
- Yes Decades. The PC hasn't changed its architecture since it first began.
- And run better the Amiga does. I still haven't seen a PC format two disks, print a file, ftp
- telnet and run X Windows at the same time as emulate a foreign computer.
-
- Heck, I was reading the newsgroups earlier while installing Windoze 3.11 with PC-Task.
- Do THAT on a PeeCee.
-
- > >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.
-
- Paying more for technology that'll be useless within a few years is too.
- And Amigas don't need a Pentium with 8Mb RAM just to run a wretched Operating System.
-
- BTW, sorry to the original author, Avi Lev, if you wanted to flame the poor PeeCee zombie
- that wrote...
- Maybe he'll go to csa.advocacy where they'll appreciate him! :-)
-
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