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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 08:43:46 +0100
- Organization: dis-
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- mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin) writes:
-
- >What do you mean it never beat the competition!? Of course it did...
-
- No, you could always buy machines with a better price/performance ratio.
- You couldn't buy a machine with similar performance at the same price,
- but that's something different.
-
- >Come on... A "bit" faster? Hmmm... Like what? 100x faster or so?
-
- So what ? Word feels sluggish on a 486 while Wordstar was flying on a Z80.
- Most of the CPU resources did go into easier programming (including bloatware
- approaches) and into "sugar" (like a graphical display instead of a text display).
-
- Of course you can be more productive with Word, but not 100 times as productive.
-
- >There is plenty of software that requires an MMU.
-
- Name two.
-
- >ie any software
- >which runs under Linux or NetBSD, for starters,
-
- Starters do not run Linux or NetBSD and they rarely run it on Amiga hardware
- and noone runs it on base machines.
-
- >and there is a lot of
- >software which can benefit from using virtual memory.
-
- Name two.
-
- >Emplant (and
- >ShapeShifter too I think) will also do graphics updates considerably
- >faster with an MMU.
-
- They could do this even faster if someone wrote a real display driver.
-
- >: Well, I consider my A3000 (with 68030/25) "high end".
-
- >Then you're deluding yourself.
-
- Why ?
-
- >Do you see that you are too?
-
- I am in a small minority. Sure. I wouldn't buy an Amiga Walker myself either.
- Doesn't mean that the majority couldn't live with it, especially when you
- consider that everything better is more expensive. In fact, as expensive
- as average Pentiums.
-
- >I consider you a myth, now are you going to go away? No, I didn't think so.
-
- That's no answer.
-
- >Yikes Mike! Where are you looking at prices? It's hardly an extra $300
- >to go from an EC030 to a full 030. $30 is probably pretty accurate.
-
- Not if you want to run at 40MHz (or 50MHz as most wheenies ask for).
-
- --
- Michael van Elst
-
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