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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 15:03:21 GMT
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- Ed Hanway (hanway@ekfido.kodak.com) wrote:
- : Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : : While the Amiga has never really offered a ton of raw horsepower, it's
- : : finessed itself against the competition to the point where it was a
- : : reasonable tradeoff.
-
- : Never? In 1985 the top-of-the-line PC was a 6 MHz 80286-based IBM PC-AT
- : and cost around $5K. The Mac was an 8MHz 68000, but IIRC its screen DMA
- : stole a noticeable portion of that (for crummy black&white.) The A1000
- : was very competitive in raw horsepower (my guess is that it was faster
- : than either) and cheaper, too.
-
- Ok, granted. By 1987, however, faster 286es and I believe 386s were
- available while the general standard Amiga still ran 68000/7.14.
-
- The A1000 didn't sell particularly well, either. :)
-
- So, let's put it this way--it's been nearly a decade since the Amiga has
- competed by virtue of raw horsepower, but has generally managed to stay
- competitive through other means. But the horsepower gap is much wider
- now, and the "other means" aren't really very competitive either.
-
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