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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 96 02:06:02 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
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- In a message of 19 Mar 96 Marc N. Barrett wrote to All:
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- MNB> The average processing power of a Mac is a 60Mhz PowerPC 601; sure,
- MNB> there are lots of 68030 and 68040 Macs, but there are also lots of
- MNB> 120Mhz PowerPC604-based Macs.
-
- 'Lots' - 604 Macs bought by the average Joe, yeah right... Not
- in Europe, they ain't.
-
- MNB> Thus, to say that an Amiga (or a typical Amiga) can run Mac
- MNB> software as fast or faster than a typical Mac is nuts.
-
- Of course we did mean 'an Amiga' can run 'a Mac app'
- as fast as the real thing. Of course we'll start comparing non-680x0
- versions when the first PPC cards appear. That's a fair comparison.
- Yours is not.
-
- Apart from that, you are forgetting there are 68060 Amigas out there -
- and a 68060 ain't exactly much slower than a PPC 603. In fact, on a
- '060 Amiga in black and white mode, things may run even faster than on
- such a Mac (Powermacs can't do black and white mode - at least not the
- ones I have listed here).
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