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- From: darkrain@mindvox.phantom.com (Swiftshadow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 19:16:18 GMT
- Organization: Phantom Access Technologies, Inc. / MindVox
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- Lars Gσrden (larsg@pc042.idb.hist.no) wrote:
- : George Noel (gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:
- : : Don't forget the "Amiga God" has the opinion to go totally standard and
- : : scrap all Amigaish hardware and just go with the OS.
-
- : The Amigaish hardware is dated anyway. There are off the self components
- : today that are a lot faster and a lot cheaper than anything that
- : AmigaTech can possibly design. There are dedicated companies out there
- : that make sound and graphics chips. AT has neither the money nor the
- : production facilities to compete with them.
-
- : : This attiude now being employed by a PC box pusher who lost $125 million
- : : DEM will not help the Amiga live on.. the OS will.. the Amiga will not,
- : : as it seems with recent news... kind of like the transition Saturn (car
- : : maker) went through..(Commercial speaking about new 1996 make of cars) -
- : : "Though it has a lot of similarities to the original design.."
-
- : It's the OS that makes the machine tick, for God's sake! A standard
- : PClone today has 10x the CPU and graphics speed of an Amiga, but the
- : Amiga can still do things those PClones can't. Why? Because of the OS.
-
- Aye... Took the words right out of my mouth. One the hallmarks of the
- Amiga is how much it can do with so little. Could you imagine just how
- fast an Amiga would be with about 10x the CPU and graphics power of what
- we now have. For a preview, take a look at the Draco (performance wise)
- to see what we have been missing. Or an A3000/4000 with an 060 and a
- Cybervision. Now imagine that but even faster, with a PowerPC at the helm.
- That is the shape of things to come and I for one want to take that road.
-
- : --
- : // Lars Gaarden. CS Student at Trondheim College of Engineering.
- : \X/ larsg@stud.idb.hist.no http://pc042.idb.hist.no/~larsg/
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