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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Message-ID: <1996Mar28.010317.53645@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 28 Mar 96 01:03:17 -0600
- References: <1996Mar9.164206.53264@cobra.uni.edu> <4htrh3$qld@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4jcfdr$s5p@info1.sdrc.com>
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- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <4jcfdr$s5p@info1.sdrc.com>, crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz) writes:
- > In article <4j98ig$3f2@nyx.cs.du.edu>, kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:
- > |> tempest@netins.net writes:
- > |>
- > |>
- > |> >Amiga users are having fun using their Amiga's, they are not waiting for
- > |> >anything. They already have what they need. Amiga users have never been
- > |> >like ibm or mac where you are desperately waiting for a faster processor in
- > |> >the hope that it will actually make the crap os work right.
- > |>
- > |> What is this adversion Amiga users have fast computers? I never remember
- > |> Amiga users saying this when the Amiga was about on par with PC's and
- > |> Macs. No we want faster processors so we can do more or the programs
- > |> we have can run faster. Are you really saying those people who use
- > |> Amigas for graphics wouldn't like faster processors?
- > |> >
- > |> >Amiga has always had quality applications. You are clueless on this point.
- > |>
- > |> Compared to Excel, WordPerfect, Quark Xpress, Netscape Navigator?
- > |>
- > |>
- > |> >I can get an 060 Amiga 3000 with gfx card for $2000. That is a great
- > |> >price and an awesome machine. And it even can run mac software :)
- > |>
- > |> New? An '060-50Mhz processor in an Amiga only makes the Amiga run twice
- > |> as fast as an '040-28 (according to Amiga Shopper) and the cheapest one
- > |> costs around $1400. But then you still can't run Mac software half as
- > |> fast as the current crop of Macs being sold and you can't run the increasing
- > |> number of PowerMac only apps.
- >
- > The Mark V from Phase V runs $900-950.
-
- You can get a new PowerMac 7200/75 for $999 retail...
-
- >
- > An 060 will run any 68K based mac software faster than damn near any Mac.
- > On PPC code of course the Amiga can't compete. But I'd rather run 68K
- > software at light speed since it is the *vast* majority of Mac software
- > rather than run a limited amount of PPC stuff very fast and 68K stuff
- > slower.
-
- Oh, Phuleaze... Having an installed base of over 1600 PPC apps is limited?
- >
- > The benchmarks I've seen on the 060 vs 040 have the 060 roughly 3 times
- > as fast. Does the new crop of PPC's run 68K software at 3 times the speed
- > or even twice as fast as the 68K macs? I think not.
-
- A lot of the 68k apps run at 040 speeds...However, considering that the
- important stuff has been upgraded to PPC, this is an absurb issue..
- >
- >
- > Shane
-
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