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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:42:57 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) writes:
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- >>On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800, robert loss
- >><rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
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- >yep. but you don't get all that much extra functionality out of it when you
- >register. Plus, I'd like to see you emulate a Mac at the same speed on your
- >PC for the same amount of money.
-
- This is a stupid comparison. The Amiga and the Mac use (or at leat used
- to use) the same processor. The most overhead from emulation usually
- comes from processor emulation.
-
- >>>software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
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- >>100% compatible is not correct (ie - run RamDoubler), but it does run
- >>old 0x0 apps very well.
-
- >yeah, but pretty damn close.
-
- and pretty damn slowly...
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- >>>it runs fine. (albeit only with small pictures because of my RAM). I use
- >>>Pentium P6's at Uni with all the fruit, with Windows 95, on 17inch, 64
- >>>bit wide display cards, and I must say that they are powerful. Windows 95
- >>>is HUGE.
-
- Really. What's 30 megs of hard drive space when you can get a gig for $250.
- That's less than $8 of hard drive space.
-
- >>> But I prefer to do all my work on the Amiga because it still
- >>>runs faster than those Pentiums. For example, I created an animation in
- >>>Corel Draw 6.0's 3d renderer, and rendered a postage stamp video of it.
- >>>Probably about 200x200. After 12 hours it still had not completed (100
- >>>frames). On Imagine 3.0 (which I got of the cover of a magazine for $10
- >>>Aussy) I rendered a 780x512x256 colour 50 frame animation and it took 38
- >>>hours. Now with all the P6's power I would have figured it would be
- >>>quicker, but then again it was inside Windows 95. The ONLY gripe I have
-
- >>Somehow I find this difficult to believe.
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- > Somehow I don't. Have you tried an Amiga in the last two years David?
- >They are very powerful machines. The PC is a powerful bit of _hardware_,
- >but the M$ OSs make it a total peice of crap. I have little arguement with
- >a PC running Linux, or OS/2, but anything M$ is crap.
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- Instead of doing this mindless handwaving and since you have access to both
- a PC and Amiga, care to post benchmarks comparing a Pentium based PC and
- an Amiga rendering the same thing?
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- >Finn Higgins
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