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- From: Terry_Palfrey@mindlink.bc.ca (Terry Palfrey)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 21:25:47 -0800
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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- In article <1996Mar9.162614.53263@cobra.uni.edu>, sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu
- (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) writes:
- >
- > Msg-ID: <1996Mar9.162614.53263@cobra.uni.edu>
- > References: <4hrvsl$7ev@sinsen.sn.no>
- > Posted: 9 Mar 96 16:26:14 -0600
- >
- > Org. : 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...
- >
- > GREETINGS..
- > |-------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > ----|-
- > ---
- > | Peter Sinclair-Day POWER MACINTOSH 7100/80
- > |
- > | University of Northern Iowa
- > |
- > | Graduate School of Library Science
- > |
- > | Rod Library - Systems & Technology
- > |
- > |
- > |
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- >
- >
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-
- Excuse me sir, but a technological whiz such as yourself should surely be
- able to trim the newsgroups out of the path where your posts simply do not
- belong. If you cannot then please contact your sysadmin for help on this or
- other matters that may elude your abilities. If you have trouble doing this
- I will be happy to contact him on your behalf and explain your problem and
- produce samples for him to dissect. Thank you for your time.
-
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- Terry
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