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- From: koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Hooray for Amiga Tech.
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 09:13:22 -0700
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) wrote:
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- > Ok, granted. By 1987, however, faster 286es and I believe 386s were
- > available while the general standard Amiga still ran 68000/7.14.
-
- For standard Amigas, I agree. But for high end Amigas, there was a time
- when they outperformed *any* Intel PC and could give workstations a run
- for their money. Back when workstations still used 68K chips, I believe
- you could get an 030 Amiga before you could get an 030 workstation from
- some workstation vendors. We also had faster disks and better graphics
- than Intel PCs.
-
- Its pretty depressing now that high-spec Amigas are many times slower
- than average PCs, and many dozen times slower than workstations.
- Hopefully that'll get turned around at some point. I think it is a
- necessary, although not a sufficient, condition for any long term Amiga
- future that the Ami become price/performance competitive again. SMP
- with PPCs might do it, if AT can get their act together on this front.
-
- - steve
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