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- From: ibl-juwa@wiso.wiso.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 14:22:50 LOCAL
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- In article <4khvsi$isb@daily-planet.nodak.edu> nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson) writes:
- >From: nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu (Nathanael J Henderson)
- >Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- >Date: 11 Apr 1996 03:56:02 GMT
-
- >Juergen Wahlmann (pg262) (wahlmann@banach.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
- >: |> and pretty damn slowly...
-
- >: What are you talking about? It's even faster than the equal powered Mac.
-
- > Perhaps, but the average Mac is much faster than the average Amiga.
- >How they would rate if the hardware platform were equally fast is
- >irrelivent--they aren't.
-
- Even PowerMacs come to a crawl if the 68k emulation is used. 'Til Copland a
- good part of the OS is still 68k. I've used a PowerMac once and the only
- impressing part of it was how incredibly fast it was rendering game frames.
-
- >: These same idiotic statements over and over again. Why not waste space and
- >time,
- >: it's so cheap.
-
- > Waste some space perhaps, but save a lot of time pissing around over
- >such trivial matters. Hard drive space is dirt cheap. Making smaller
- >programs might appeal to your sense of aesthetics, but in the real world
- >a couple meg or even 50-100 Meg isn't that big a deal. $25 of hard drive
- >space on a $3,000 system to run $300-$500 programs? Nobody is going to
- >lose any sleep over that.
-
- Bad enough. Wasting space on HD and main memory also increases loading time of
- OS and apps, and is of course an indication of less quality software.
-
- >: Why the hell do PC/Mac advocates give so much on benchmarks?
-
- > Because it's such a convenient angle to attack the Amiga with, since
- >the scores inevitably fall in favor of the PC/Mac. :-) I suppose a big
- >part of it is also that PC vs PC and Mac vs Mac benchmark scores are so
- >common and usefull that people automatically adopt them as a quick
- >measurement of all platforms, for better or worse.
-
- More for worse I think. These benchmarks say absolutly nothing about the
- usefulness of a system. It's all marketing hype.
-
- >: Processing power is not the one and only thing with
- a computer system.
-
- > True, much as financial stability isn't the ONLY thing about a bank.
- >But it's a darn big thing. :-)
-
- Ah, I would love to see AmigaOS running on such a powerful machine like a
- PowerMac, perhaps with some decent custom chip enhancements. :-)
-
- Juergen.
-
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