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- From: ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
- Subject: Re: EGGPLANT, IMPLANT, EMPATH, BLAZEPLANT...
- Message-ID: <84216@ut-emx.uucp>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:04:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov11.181732.7625@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <83760@ut-emx.uucp> <1992Nov16.201334.23875@ra.msstate.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov16.201334.23875@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
-
- >
- >Hah! Shows how ignorant you are. I happen to be typing this on an A4000
- >with an A2065 Ethernet board, with the total price of said hardware much
- >less than a comparable NeXT or Quadra. As for expansion, I have three
- >Zorro III slots left, allowing for as much or more expansion than a Quadra
- >700 or NeXTStation. After adding an SVGA board, HD controller, and a
- >SoundBlaster Pro to my 486 at work, it only has three crummy ISA slots left.
- >Horsepower? Well, the 040 that is in the A4000 is the same one as in the
- >Quadra 700 and NeXTStation and the Amiga is aided by the AGA chipset. My
- >486-50DX at work may have a bit more raw CPU power, but it is still acting
- >like a brain-dead 8086 when running most software.
-
- Are you running ethernet or TCP/IP. To my knowledge, Amigas are not that
- hot on TCP/IP networks.
- >
- >>3: Please do not say that the amiga OS is as good as any other
- >> OS. I have met the guru more times than I care to remember.
- >
- >That is usually due to the ignorance of the user more than anything else.
- >My A3000 is typically up for days at a time running all sorts of software,
- >including a near constant telnet session, ADPro, DPaint, emacs, mod players,
- >and others. My A4000 has been up since Friday and has guru'ed only when
- >I tried to run a few EuroHacker demos. Perhaps you should review what you
- >are doing and maybe educate yourself in how to properly use an Amiga before
- >you make such claims.
-
- (This WAS my fault. My friend's A2000 had a bad SCSI terminator, causing
- lots of meditations. As soon as I dropped in another the probs cleared
- up.)
-
- After looking at some A4000 stuff, I do like what they had on it.
-
- Yes, I admit the previous post from me was a bit rabid, so sorry.
-
- I was right, though about the Emplant. The friend of mine who owned
- it barely got it to the setup screen, so I am not truly wrong.
-
-
-
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