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- {subhead} Amiga FAQ{def}{p}
- Article by Shawn
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- Q: One of the questions people ask is, what is AMIGA ?
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- A: Unfortunately due to no marketing since 1990 people of the younger
- generation never heard of AMIGA . It will soon be 10 that's one whole
- generation plus countless other half, third ,etc... generations never
- hearing of AMIGA . I'm here to change that and so are countless other
- people including Gateway. If you did hear of AMIGA we never refer to
- AMIGA as "it" , <Blasphemy>. AMIGA is referred to as a human being
- because first and foremost AMIGA acts like a human being hence never
- "it". We call her AMIGA - GIRLFRIEND in SPANISH -rather nice and unique
- . AMIGA is userable friendly. Plus you may have caught me saying "we"
- that's because when you get an AMIGA you are part of a NUCLEAR FAMILY
- that is creative as well as smart, yeah true one in the same. You can't
- ever find this loyalty except in family -hence we are part of ONE BIG
- FAMILY. We even have our own Logo and a band plus a CD a national
- ANTHEM if you will.
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- Back to the question at hand. The AMIGA is a REAL-TIME MULTITASKING
- system with REAL MULTIMEDIA. AMIGA uses advanced arch. Called Direct
- Access Arch.(DAA). Simply put Motorola uses it and Intel , SGI ,Mac and
- the rest including gamestations use bus arch. This same bus arch. That
- Motorola used in the 50's. Intel and the rest are copying Motorola's
- old arch basically verbatim. This makes them old and obsolete from the
- get go. At least 40 year old technology. With the newer technology and
- having DAA as the motherboard the AMIGA is faster and also having True
- 32bit, 64bit, 128bit. This allows for true RISC accessing Where as the bus
- arch. Side is limited to 4bit-sound(92voices), 8bit-video(256colors at
- one time),16bit bus arch. True the SGI uses 16bit video but why pay that
- much more- $15,000. When at that price I can have a Video Toaster
- FLYER( The AMIGA that makes all sfx and movies) plus several PowerPc
- chips going at 750mhz real-time 2gigs of ram plus other needed stuff.
- This brings us to the Price. The avg. price is $1500 or $450( this one
- is basically a games machine that can control the security of your house
- and get on the Internet!). The A1200 the cheap but expandable AMIGA .
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- Q: What is Real-time Multitasking?
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- A: It is when an Item has more then one processing unit or brain in this
- case specialized to do each there own thing . The human brain has that ,
- but the main difference is that all are built into one. The AMIGA has
- several "brains" each programed to do there own thing plus ease the
- "stress" load on the main brain or "CPU". Pcs, Macs, SGIs, gamestations,
- palmtop computers have one CPU. Therefore AMIGA is the only one that can
- multitask. Why do we need it hum.. you always ask that question before
- but yet answered by saying I want my computer to do this without waiting
- for this program or run this and download several files at once. That
- is something only the AMIGA can do. That is called Multitasking.
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- Q: What is Multimedia?
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- A: It is when Video, voice over ,sfx are combined into one without
- adding any hardware or software. But I have a cdrom player so I have
- multimedia. My dear friend so does a stereo and its not considered
- multimedia. - Combining all forms of MEDIA into one package.
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- Q: Since the AMIGA is the lacreme of the lacreme why doesn't the AMIGA
- cost more?
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- A: Henry Ford - ring a bell, several people making the same computer
- -plus its made the same "way" a PC is made only better technology. The
- parts are cheap to because they have been around since the AMIGA was
- made in 1984.
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- {bold}Some finer more points of the AMIGA computer{nobold}
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- 1. When adding older CISC chips we can "patch " them together or Risc
- several CISC chips together for a faster betterAMIGA.
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- 2. When we add a more powerful CPU i.e. 32bit to 64bit the AMIGA becomes
- faster in all areas and the AMIGA is automatically a 64bit system
- likewise for anything else as well as software.
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- 3. The OS (operating System ) can multitask in only 256k and the OS only
- takes up 6megs of hardrive space.
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- 4. Real-time Multitasking is when you are able to do 2 or more things
- with as little as ram possible but yet operate fast and efficently as
- possible. I.E... format the floppy, get on the internet and download
- several files at once, and also upload several files at once, and then
- go on and do your wordprocessing while making an image in the
- background(rendering).
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- {bold}How did I help?{nobold}
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- Way back in 1995 when Gateway was advertising the Destination computer
- and touting its capabilities. I called Gateway and got ahold of Jim
- Collas (now President of AMIGA then Vice President of Gateway) and
- TedWaite , President of Gateway. I told them that I represented AMIGA
- yeah but so does anybody that owns one. The point is that I said that
- you could be sued and to say that you were the first When the AMIGA is
- the first Destination style computer. It has now become liable and for
- you to claim as such so you need to buy out AMIGA , and I said that with
- a major emphasis on buyout. No sooner had I said that then the
- destination commercial that was on was cut off and a stupid old
- commercial was put on. Since that time there has been no real
- Destination commercials and AMIGA was bought out from GATEWAY with the
- express purpose of updating to the AMIGA platform. Hence the two year
- upgrade policy they now advertise. Soon the Look and feel will be
- different.That will be because there is an AMIGA inside no Intel nor any
- other PC piece of crap.
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- Email : {bold}amigaone@powerh.net{nobold}