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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: 9 Mar 1996 14:08:37 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4hrvsl$7ev@sinsen.sn.no>
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-
- I was hoping the announcement from AT about the new Amiga would
- shut up the whiners on this group, but I was obviously wrong.
-
- 1. Concerning the ec030 40Mhz: This is a fairly big
- step up from a 020 14Mhz. Even though it can't compete with the
- 486's or pentiums, you have to remember that it runs AmigaOS,
- not some bloated windows crap. Unless you're into cpu-intensive
- rendering, you don't need a 040/060. And even if you do, you can
- upgrade to it.
-
- 2. If you expected somthing like AGA+ with improved gfx and
- 16bit sound remember that AT can't work miracles. It's not so
- long since they took over the leftover mess from C=. If you
- don't like it, buy a gfx card.
-
- 3. You can't expect Amiga-O2 3.2 to be a big step up from 3.1
- Those of you who would like to have mem protection should read
- some of the posts explaing why this is so difficult to implement
- on the Amiga. Maybe M. Van Elst or Olaf Barthel could explain it
- once more.
-
- When reading the announcement from AT I was thrilled to see that
- the porting of AmigaOS to PPC is on schedule and that we
- actually can expect to see Power Amiga's available early 1997!!
- I wouldn't have dared to dream this possible.
-
- I think AT has done a respectable job in reviving the Amiga. My
- only gripe with AT is the poor developer support. They certainly
- could have made a better effort on making the NDK 3.1 available,
- at least uploaded the includes/autodcs to Aminet.
-
- I think the new Amiga is a step in the right direction with
- it's modularity and expandability. Also the fact that it can be
- turned into a tower is very positive and shows that AT is on
- the right path.
-
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