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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 01:13:07 GMT
-
- >On Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:25:47 GMT, finn@higgins.ak.planet.gen.nz (finn)
- >wrote:
-
- >>> At a fraction of the speed of Mac/PCs costing much less.
- >>Yeah, but can you run an Amiga on your mac?
-
- >If you've got a Mac, why would you -want- to run Amiga software?
- >There is a tiny (non-existant?) market for such things, finn.
-
- Don't you think is is odd how few Amiga owners want to run Mac software
- though.. we can do it, but why would we want to?
-
- You mean you don't want Lightwave? One of the best rendering packages on
- any low-end system? I'm sure that it's crap, I mean, the people who make
- Babylon 5, Seaquest DSV, the X files, Robocop the series and lots of other
- stuff don't know what they are doing, right? <note sarcasm>
-
- >>> Sheesh! Get a clue--even low-end PowerMacs are faster than 060 Amigas.
- >>>(Disclaimer for the mentally challenged: By PowerMacs I mean currently
- >>>shipping models, even though even the slowest PowerMac ever built is
- >>>still probably as fast/faster than the fastest Amiga model.)
- >>
- >> just wait for 1997... Plus, not all macs are powermacs
-
- >Just wait..just wait. Tell me, what kind of PowerMacs do you think
- >will be available in 1997?
-
- I hate to tell you this, but 200000000000 mip processors do not a good
- system make. Plus, at the moment, the 68060 actually runs 680x0 code faster
- than the PowerMac, meaning that for 68k apps the fastest Amiga is faster.
- And why are we even having this argument? Isn't there enough room for the
- Amiga, PC nd MAC in the market, I mean look at the main professional uses they
- get:
-
- PC: buisness
- Mac: DTP
- Amiga: DTV
-
- isn't there enough room for us all?
-
- Finn
-
-