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- From: wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 16:05:03 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
- Sender: wahlmann@banach (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
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- References: <316328a1.113870448@news.onramp.net> <2213.6673T854T1189@ak.planet.gen.nz> <4kf3n1$rim@nyx.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <4kf3n1$rim@nyx.cs.du.edu>, kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas) writes:
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- |> >>>software emulated Macintosh. I have tried Adobe Photoshop 3.0 on it and
- |>
- |> >>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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- What are you talking about? It's even faster than the equal powered Mac.
-
- |> 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.
-
- These same idiotic statements over and over again. Why not waste space and time,
- it's so cheap.
-
- |> 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?
-
- Why the hell do PC/Mac advocates give so much on benchmarks?
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- Benchmarks are absolutly senseless when it comes to efficiency, user
- friendlyness, responsiveness.
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- Processing power is not the one and only thing with a computer system.
-
- The Sparc 10 workstation I'm currently typing at isn't anyway faster with it's
- GUI than my Amiga and I'm currently the only one using it.
-
- Heck, FrameMaker is faster on my ShapeShifter Mac than on this thing here!
-
- Juergen.
-