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- From: peterk@combo.ganesha.com (Dr. Peter Kittel)
- Subject: Re: RISK Amiga. Will it work?
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
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- References: <4jda0p$je6@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au>
- Message-ID: <peterk.0md0@combo.ganesha.com>
- Date: 3 Apr 96 15:39:40 MEZ
- Organization: Private Site
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- In article <4jda0p$je6@hobyah.cc.uq.oz.au> qmnmaren@dingo.cc.uq.oz.au (Nickolas Marentes) writes:
- >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.
-
- Please be aware that we still differ from the rest of the world in one
- important aspect: Our OS, which enables us to work *also* on a smaller
- footprint than they. So there will always be not only one "future Amiga",
- but always a whole palette of models, where the lowest end reaches much
- lower than machines with other OSes. So it may well turn out that the
- future PPC high-end Amiga looks identical (hardware-wise) to the then
- standard Wintel or PPCP box. But there will also be a smaller box which
- will not be paralleled by others (I don't think we should mention those
- $500 JAVA boxes here, they are a very different kind of beast).
-
- >Price will play a big factor.
-
- My own words.
-
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