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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar9.162614.53263@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 9 Mar 96 16:26:14 -0600
- References: <4hrvsl$7ev@sinsen.sn.no>
- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
-
- In article <4hrvsl$7ev@sinsen.sn.no>, oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik) writes:
- >
- > 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.
-
- Big step for Amiga users? ROTFLMAO!!! 030 in 1996!!!Amazing...
-
- >
- > 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.
- >
-
- Or invest in a different platform thats going somewere..
-
- > 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.
-
- Most likely and what price points?
-
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > --
- > % Odd H. Sandvik %% email: oddhs@sn.no
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- > % Acceleration into temporal space continuum now begins...
- > % Alpha 7, acknowledge... Alpha 7, acknowledge...
-
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