home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 00:57:36 GMT+1
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4m26@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Private
-
- In a message of 14 Mar 96 G. Baldwin wrote to All:
-
- GB> heading. The Amiga used to be a powerhouse - even when the A500 was
- GB> first released, it was above the rest - the 68000/7 was a lot more
- GB> powerful than the 286's and 386SX's at the time, and OCS put
- GB> CGA/EGS/VGA and a AdLib or SoundBlaster to shame - best of all, for an
- GB> attractive price.
-
- GB> Now I keep seeing the same trend - "hmm, how cheap CAN we get?". The
-
- You see this trend largely because anything faster could never be
- affordable to A500/A1200 type buyers. AT probably WOULD like to have
- a high-end model, but this is called 'PowerPC Amiga' - which is
- just not ready yet. We will have to wait at least a year until we
- can buy such a thing (and it will be expensive at first).
-
- GB> 680x0 line just does not offer the price to performance ratio that the
- GB> ole 68000 offered back in 1985-87, yet we still use it, cling to it
- GB> even, when everyone else has dropped it.
-
- I don't think we or AT "cling" to it, we would all like a PPC Amiga
- right now. But since the CBM disaster put development of a RISC
- Amiga back by at least two years, this will take time. People
- will either have to deal with this or buy a PC/Mac (as a temporary
- solution ;)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
-
- -- Via Xenolink 1.985B5, XenolinkUUCP 1.1
-