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- From: fmlazar@ritz.mordor.com (Frank Lazar)
- Subject: Re: Possibly returning to the Amiga, after almost a year
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- Organization: AMUSE-New York Amiga Users Group
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- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 21:37:19 GMT
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- In article <oj6n36b71n5.fsf@hpsrk.fc.hp.com>, koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve
- Koren) wrote:
-
- > lionboy@primenet.com (Robert Poole) wrote:
- >
- > > I didn't think the Be Box was that widely disseminated yet. I wonder
- > > how much one of those costs, relative to the cost of an Amiga,
- >
- > The BeBox is pretty cheap, especially if you consider you're getting a
- > _much_ higher spec machine than even the fastest possible Amiga. It
- > becomes even cheaper if you already have parts you can cannibalize from
- > an existing PC, which a great many folks can do. It probably costs more
- > than an equivalent PC, but it is much closer to competing in
- > price/performance with PCs than Amigas are :-(.
- >
-
-
- Course, there's the slight matter of NO software being currently
- available for the machine but if you want to code your own, it might be a
- worthwhile project. Currently the development environment is CodeWarrior
- on the Macintosh and the BeBox is being sold to developers only at this
- point, although getting listed as one might not be that much ofa hurdle.
- And while the BeBox is definitely faster than the fastest CURRENT Amiga,
- the Power Amiga should put itself right up there especiallyif
- multi-processor support is added, though a PPC 604 holds itself quite
- evenly with dual 603's.
-
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