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- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 22:37:20 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: AB3D II beats Quake....
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- From: john.hendrikx@grafix.xs4all.nl (John Hendrikx)
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- In a message of 26 Mar 96 Thore Bjerklund Karlsen wrote to All:
-
- >>> If a ECS/AGA 680x0 programmer has to learn a new standard (SVGA), and a
- >>> new CPU, why should he learn the AT's PowerPC that has no market rather
- >>> than a 80x86 PC?
-
- >> Because the PowerAmiga will have a nice OS and the PC's won't.
-
- TBK> So, what if you buy a cheap PC and run AmigaOS on it? Will you
- TBK> still pay twice as much for the machine labelled "Amiga", even
- TBK> though it's exactly the same machine inside?
-
- Now what do YOU think? I would of course buy the cheap machine, after all it's
- exactly the same inside. The only thing that counts is that it runs AmigaOS
- and some of the software I've used for a very, very long time. You'd be stupid
- to buy a box which has LESS expandability than a standard clone, yet people
- seem to want this to 'protect' AmigaOS from getting killed... now really, do
- we have so little faith in AmigaOS that it needs a custom machine with lots of
- limitations for it to survive? Do we really think that if a PPC machine could
- run AmigaOS/MacOS and WinNT that NOBODY would care for AmigaOS anymore?
- Sheesh, in that case we might as well quit now and start running NT or
- something.
-
- TBK> Heck, the PC will probably even be more powerful anyway..
-
- Oh dear me, could AmigaOS handle all that power? Wouldn't the machine be too
- fast for me? I'd better stick to my underpowered 030 I guess, NOT!
-
- Grtz John
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