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- From: lolsen@hsr.no (Lasse Olsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 22:44:27 GMT
- Organization: UNINETT news service
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- Marc N. Barrett (barrett@radiks.net) wrote:
- : In article <0099F8A2.9046DEF6@netins.net>, tempest@netins.net wrote:
-
- :
- : >Yes Amiga can run mac applications at the same speed or faster than most macs
- : >can run it. On this subject, you don't have a clue in hell about it.
-
- : Sounds like you are the one lacking a clue.
-
- : The average processing power of an Amiga is a 68020 at 14Mhz. There
- : are some Amigas that are faster, but they are offset by the huge numbers
- : of 68000 Amigas.
- : The average processing power of a Mac is a 60Mhz PowerPC 601; sure, there
- : are lots of 68030 and 68040 Macs, but there are also lots of 120Mhz
- : PowerPC604-based Macs.
-
- Requescat im pecum!
- Over 20 million Macs have been sold.
- *At least* 50% were *sub* 040s.
- By your own (il)logical conclusion it is fair to say that the
- typical Mac is a 33-40Mhz 030.
- I do not follow this logic.
- I travel in and out of multinational offshore and
- comercial cooporations all year long - our contractors,
- often dedicated to the Mac. The bulk, in use, are still 040 based.
-
- : Thus, to say that an Amiga (or a typical Amiga) can run Mac software as
- : fast or faster than a typical Mac is nuts.
-
- Maybe, but not in the way you think.
- Cheers...
-