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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: RISK Amiga. Will it work?
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 19:35:40 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Nickolas Marentes (qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au) wrote:
- : With regards to the inclusion of more IBM technology into the Amiga
- : design, many have said they feel it is the best thing that could happen.
- : I doubt if by using the same hardware as the opposition is enough to win
- : the lead. Let's not compare the future Amiga with the current PC's. There
- : are a lot of big plans for the PC due in the future with many new
- : hardware innovations coming. In 12 months, the RISC Amiga will look just
- : like a 200MHZ Pentium Pro with the latest Super3D VGA chipset and Sound
- : Blaster chips all running off the new Windows NT operating system.
-
- There is room for the amiga way of doing things even with PC hardware.
- Using svga chips on the motherboard will allow for a higher common
- denominator than PCs that can only assume a svga subset. Since the amiga
- doesn't have to follow PC standards it can make a better PC than a PC. It
- can add the amiga fast user feedback and smooth graphics to the power of the
- PC chipsets. You will lose some amiga features but gain much more in the
- way of power. Svga chips on the motherboard mean a higher lowest common
- denominator but that doesn't mean you can't have PCI boards as well.
-
- : Price will play a big factor. There are a lot more PC manufacturers than
- : Amiga manufacturers so PC competition will be high, driving prices down.
- : The PC already has about 90% of the market. For many who use a computer
- : seriously for wordprocessing or spreadsheet, if it doesn't run Microsoft
- : Office, it's not worth buying.
-
- True, but at least using the same parts will mean a more level playing
- field, you can't beat them price wise by reinventing the wheel. Using
- standard PC IO is good because amiga IO is junk. Being proprietary is only
- good when you are better than the standard.
-
- : The Amiga needs to play more than a "catch-up" or "a little better" game.
- : It has to be MUCH better. The original Amiga succeeded because it was
- : designed with technology that was way ahead of what was currently
- : available. All AT will be doing is making best use of current technology.
- : Yes, the RISC Amigas will be great Amigas but will the rest of the world
- : buy it instead of the myriad of future Pentium Pro's or Power Mac? I know
- : that the new RISC Amiga will be CHIRP (or whatever it has been renamed
- : to) compliant but will somebody buy the RISC Amiga for the Amiga side or
- : for the NT/MAC side?
-
- Well, with a higher lowest common denominator and a more integrated hardware
- design with an os written by the people making the hardware you will have an
- advantage. To repeat the same formula that make the amiga success before
- would require a miracle involving inventing something that doesn't exist.
-
- : May I stress that I am a Amiga user and hate PC's. I will always buy Amiga.
- : I am not trying to create an argument here just constructive debate.
- : Please feel free to comment. If I've got it all wrong, please explain it
- : to me. I hope I am!
-
- Maybe AT will make things clearer eventually as to their plans.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
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