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- From: M_Andree@tribal.line.org (Matthias Andree)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1996 20:13:23 +0100
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- pwm5k@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Patrick William Mackin) wrote:
-
- > kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu writes:
- > >
- > > Do you really want to compare an interlaced graphics mode to SVGA? HAM
- > > is so slow its basically unusable. Why is it that anything that the Amiga
- > > doesn't have that every modern platform has, the Amiga doesn't need? One
- > > minute Amiga users say "We don't need fast processors" and the next minute
- > > you're bragging about Vapor-PowerAmiga.
- >
- > No, the AMIGA has about everything it needs now, except for a
- > good custom graphics solution (ie custom chips? or gfx
- > cards?). As soon as PPC Amiga is out (within a year, and they
- > STILL don't have IBM PPCs!!! so I wouldn't compare your PC to
- > the Amiga until one of us gets PPC!!!) it will be totally
- > all-powerful.
-
- Moreover: using a real-life benchmark, running Windoze NT on two
- identical machines - save for the CPU: the PPC 604/1xx is evidently
- faster than the pentium pro 266. SPECint states the opposite. Everyone
- believes in intel. Did you forget that some time ago PC graphics boards
- were cheating certain benchmark tests? Trying out a newly developped
- benchmark, the formerly fastest board went creeping... That's what I
- think about iCOMP and SPECint benchmarks: adjusted to run quicker on
- intel's CPUs... Why does iCOMP state a DX2/66 was almost twice as fast
- as a DX-33 whereas Dhrystone yields 34000 for 2/66 and 26000 (oder was
- it 28k) for 33 MHz? Think about it.
-
- > Eh?? Not with all that software he mentioned!! Most of which
- > isn't even comparable on the PC (Scala, Photogenics, etc.)
- > Then, you mention "speed" We Amiga users do not NEED a computer
- > that "has more MIPS" than our next door neighbors.. We just
- > need A BETTER machine.. With custom chips and premptive
- > multitasking that DO NOT REQUIRE a 486 or Pentium to work!
-
- But you can hardware-multitask using multiple pentium processors ;-)
- Especially handy for multi-node BBSes. No need for Novell networks and a
- 386 per node ;-)
-
- >
- > > >And you have a system that *creeps* along and that is not really supported
- > > >any more because the market shifts to the Pentium/PCI. Duh.
- > >
- > > A dx/2-66 doesn't creep along at all. But if a dx/2-66 creeps, an Amiga
- > > must run backwards.
- >
- > Uh, Using Windoze, especially 95, which is what will probably
- > become the standard quite soon, it most certainly does crawl.
- > My Amiga 3000 with a 25 mhz 030, ALWAYS has a speedy workbench,
- > and I almost never get "low memory" messages, and if I do,
- > that's cuz I've only got 4 megs. Try running Winslows on THAT!
-
- Ever tried running Windoze 95 (outdated, we're in 1996) on an 8-meg,
- DX2/66? <snore, yawn>. Every time you press a key: swap...swap...swap.
- 700 K RAM free. Great, uh?
-
- Although that machine benchmarks 3-4 times as fast as mine, working with
- it is like working on my C-64 using GEOS. It'll put you asleep in no
- more than 15 minutes waiting every keypress to react.
-
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