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- From: zilch@flatearth.xs4all.nl (Zilch)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 19:16:45 GMT
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- On Tue, 02 Apr 1996 10:22:42 -0800, robert loss
- <rlossrd@cc.curtin.edu.au> wrote:
-
- > 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.
-
- You'll be even more horrified when you see the real biggies like OS/2,
- Windows NT or just about any UNIX version I can think of. Modern
- operating systems are big. The Amiga OS would also grow in size as it
- grows in functionality. All those help systems, screen, hundreds of
- screen, printer and other device drivers, network functionality,
- guided tours, sample animations, small applications like terminal
- programs, media players, etc. take 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.
-
- Next time please don't compare apples with oranges. If a program like
- Corel 3D Renderer is slow in Win95 that doesn't mean doesn't mean that
- the OS slows it down, it just means that that Corel program was a slug
- to begin with. Try running the Windows versions of Imagine, Lightwave,
- Caligari/Truespace on that same P6 machine and then compare it with
- your accelerated 1200 ...
-
- >The ONLY gripe I have
- >with Amiga's is they don't come standard with High Density floppies. Very
- >annoying when I can't afford to buy a HD drive. But thems the breaks...
-
- A while back I heard they stopped making those Amiga compatible
- HD-drives. I guess they'll become even more expensive now. Just
- another example of the braindead engineering decisions Commodore made.
- It would have been a lot easier on Amiga owners if they could just buy
- standard PC compatible HD drives and VGA monitors off the shelves
- instead of hunting down expensive HD drives or 15 Khz monitors.
-
- Ruud
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