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- From: dcorn@paradise.pplnet.com (David Corn)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 20:01:48 GMT
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- On 22 Mar 1996 08:03:24 GMT, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- >I have never owned an 020 Amiga.. the Slowest Amiga I have is an 040 35mhz
- >Amiga. We now have 060 50mhz Amiga's, which run mac software faster than
- >any 680x0 Mac! Period! Amiga's will soon be using Power PC 604 Chip too,
- >so we will yet again run your Power Mac software faster than you can as well.
- >060 50mhz runs mac software at great speeds already however, much faster than
- >most mac's.
-
- I wouldn't be bragging about that if I were you. I don't even think
- Apple -makes- any more commercial-line non-portable 0x0 Macs! Suffice
- to say the 060, while fast, isn't exactly competition for, say, a PPC
- 604 at 120 or 150. And that's the price range you're looking at for
- the Amiga 4000/040 range with an 060.
-
- >I bet you my Slower 040 Amiga can run more software than your fastest Power
- >Mac could ever dream of, and I will run Amiga,IBM, and your Mac software all
- >at the same time. Will let you know how the Power 604 Amiga runs your mac
- >software in a year or so. :)
-
- PC software? You either have hardware to do so (how fa..err, slow?)
- or software, which is essentially unusable. Either way, big deal?
- Apple's PC solutions are far better and far faster.
-