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- From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Amiga.FST
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.205717.8044@utstat.uucp>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <92203.154356KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> <1992Jul24.155808.14673@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 20:57:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.155808.14673@edsi.plexus.COM> scottba@edsi.plexus.COM (Scott Anderson) writes:
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-
- >The Amiga 500 was the best home PC for the price until Amiga dropped
- >it. Now the base 3000's are. period. Imagine programming in Text
- >mode, starting that to compile, start playing Agony (awsome game),
- >pause it when you start dying a lot on level 3, start another game that
- >is your personal favorite, get sick of it, then decide it is time to
- >call your connection to the net. Now imgaine this. All of those games
- >would be GAME OVER if you pause them, because they would keep going in
- >the background. Talk about awsome stuff for a $300 computer.
-
- Has the A500 been dropped? The Amiga is a fine computer but let's not get
- carried away. First of all, it doesn't cost you $300 for a usable system.
- You are conveneiently forgetting the monitor, more RAM, a possible 2cond
- floppy and/or HD. The fact tha it does preemptive multitasking is great.
- The fact that the tasks are not protected is not. The A3000's cost far too
- much.
- >
- >Seen the video toaster or impact vision? 24-bit graphics in addition
- >to a regular video studio? (of course that is NOT cheap at $1500, but
- >it better than the average TV studio cost of $100,000 for the same
- >equipment.
-
- The video toaster is great, but the $2000 is just the start. You don't get the
- equivalent of $100,000 TV studio equipment for that. You need to add a
- few things. Still inexpensive, but hardly a home computer item. DCTV is more
- like it for the home.
- >
- >>for the home. And there is always the I rather buy an Amiga than a Mac, but
- >>if my (future) amiga can not work with my GS at all, I would go for the MAC.
- >
- >Forgetting AMAX II+? The Color MAC under system 7 emulator? It can be
- >had on software or hardware depending on whether 2-3 Mhz lost to
- >putting the code into ram as opposed to using rom on a card.
- >The best thing is that an Amiga 3000@33mhz with Amax II+ hardware is as
- >fast a mac as a Quadra 950, and when an Amiga (can be both computers
- >simultaneously) will blow the socks off of a 950. Did I bother to
- >mention that such an Amiga with Unix in ROM costs about $3900?
- >Just a little less than a Quadra 950 with AU/X... hehe
-
- AMAX II+ does not run colour. It uses the 128k Mac+ ROM's. It takes over the
- computer completely(i.e. you can't multitask Mac and Amiga programs
- together. You are probably thinking of the "vapourware" Emplant product.
- There is no such thing as an Amiga with Unix in ROM. The only computer
- that had that was the HP Integral many years ago.
- >
- >Remember, Amiga is going to release a new computer within a year.
- >That means that the price of a 3000 should go down.
- >I need an AMIGA, but for now I stick with my GS at 9mhz/16cache and run
- >GNO.
-
- I would suggest you get your facts straight before making any decisions at
- all w.r.t. computer purchasing.
-
- Philip McDunnough
- nextwave!seacove!philip@epas.utoronto.ca
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