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- From: drizzit@eskimo.com (G. Baldwin)
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:52:22 GMT
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- Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@bitnova.com) wrote:
- : : rand@maui.netwave.net (Rand R. Fredricksen) wrote:
- : :
- : : >I believe neither one is often used by the average consumer. But an
- : : >FPU can be slotted, a CPU swap is required to incorporate the MMU. You
- : : >might look more
- : :
- : : Who says the MMU can't be socketed? I know it was socketed for use
- : : with the 020, and unless there are special signal lines required for
- : : MMU usage AND the EC030 lacks them, I don't see this as a problem.
- :
- : I think you'd be hard pressed to find a good supply of 68551s. And it's
- : just a stupid solution to what shouldn't even be a problem. AT has to be
- : willing to LEAD, not meekly follow where everyone else has abandoned. An
- : EC 030 is not a leadership statement.
-
- Jason, I am realy getting scared with the direction that the Amiga is
- heading. The Amiga used to be a powerhouse - even when the A500 was
- first released, it was above the rest - the 68000/7 was a lot more
- powerful than the 286's and 386SX's at the time, and OCS put CGA/EGS/VGA
- and a AdLib or SoundBlaster to shame - best of all, for an attractive
- price.
-
- Now I keep seeing the same trend - "hmm, how cheap CAN we get?". The
- 680x0 line just does not offer the price to performance ratio that
- the ole 68000 offered back in 1985-87, yet we still use it, cling to
- it even, when everyone else has dropped it. The Mac doesn't use it,
- the Nintendo doesn't use it, and neither does the Sega. Sheesh, even
- a 3DO mark 2 uses a PPC602... yet here we are, wondering "hmm,
- should we use a EC030/40, or a 030/50?" Bah! This makes me sick,
- and it makes a lot of other people sick. Yet we still have a few
- people driving around with the notion that a 68EC030/40 IS good.
- Well, if we had killer custom chips that put the Playstation's 3D
- chips and S3's Graphic Card chips to shame, some good I/O chips, all
- on a nice high speed bus, it would be harder to convince us that we
- need such a fast CPU for the low low end. But we don't, and people
- don't realize it. I just don't know why.
-
- But agreed, 100% full heartedly. The Amiga is no longer a leader.
- The hardware is old, the CPU is slow, and the OS, other than its
- slick GUI and fast PMT, has little to offer that 'the other big OS's'
- do offer. <sigh> Well, at least there is the BeBox now from Be Inc...
-
- Greg Baldwin (drizzit@eskimo.com)
- Amiga user and junkie since 1987 Computer Science & DTV Student
- Commdore64 fan since around 1983 http://www.eskimo.com/~drizzit
- Tyranical EFnet #Amiga Channel Operator "Drizzit"
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- : Maybe some escape? No! Not even one!
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