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- From: neilo@m140.aone.net.au (Neil O'Rourke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Haynie joins AT team
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 19:48:15 +1000
- Message-ID: <neilo-2303961948150001@d59-1.cpe.maroochydore.aone.net.au>
- References: <14FEF421@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <4inrtg$hlp@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4itcta$lpa@coranto.ucs.mun.ca> <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no>
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- In article <4iutet$cb2@astfgl.idb.hist.no>, larsg@pc042.idb.hist.no (Lars
- Gσrden) wrote:
-
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
-
- Not quite correct ... the standard SVGA chipset can't pull tricks like
- draggable screens, screens of different resoultions etc on the one monitor
- and the like. These nice feaures of the Amiga are a result of the
- hardware.
-
- Neil O'Rourke
- neilo@m140.aone.net.au
-
- "Naturally, we maintain plausable denial" - Cancer Man, The X Files
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