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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (Pacarana)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 04:01:41 GMT
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- > I think AT's long term prospects would be a lot better if they
- >took BE's approach: ~ $2200 machine that blows all the other paltforms
- >out of the water. This would entail taking the path that D. Haynie
- >has outlined a number of times: dump outmoded expensive custom chips,
- >port the OS to PPC, and go modular on the design. The Amiga would
- >then have recaptured the 'WOW!' factor that it used to have.
- But the custom chips are precisely they the Amiga had a wow factor. And they
- were not expensive, they gave a walop of power for very little. Look at a U64,
- it packs much better than highest-end Pentium power for something like $200-
- 300. And the PPC is the wowiest RISC CPU either (although it may turn out to
- have been a good choice IF it ever ends up taking over the market like Intel
- 80x86 have now).
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