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- From: Todd_Lewis@unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
- Subject: Re: A1000 & misc. questions, advice
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.205134.15496@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <1993Jan6.135008.23086@ornl.gov>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:51:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.135008.23086@ornl.gov> de5@ORNL.GOV (Dave Sill) writes:
- >How about a newer version of AmigaDOS? What the best the 1000 will support?
- >What improvements does it have over 1.3?
-
- I'm running 2.04 on mine. 2.1 should work too.
-
- >If I were to bag the 1000 and buy something new, what would a complete,
- >reasonable system cost? What's the old 1000 worth? I see the 1200 lists for
- >$600--whats the street price? Can I use the monitor or floppy drive from my
- >1000 on a 1200? If not, what would a new one cost? How much would a decent
- >hard drive cost?
-
- A1000 are sold by the pound these days. $150-$200 tops. Don't know street
- price of an A1200. The monitor and floppy drive should work as well
- as they do on your A1000. IDE hard drive are a couple hundred bucks.
-
- >What's the current state of Amiga technology? What are Commodore's stated
- >plans for the Amiga's future? Is the user base steady, growing, or declining?
- >I've seen people complaining about software vendors dropping Amiga support.
-
- Better, bigger, faster. Growing steadily. Vendors come and go. Most stay.
-
- >Should I just save up for '486 clone? If not, why not? I'm a computing
- >professional with a CS degree. I'm a UNIX weenie and a competent C
- >programmer.
-
- No. Then you would be stuck with a '486 clone! UNIX weenie's and C
- programmers don't like stuff that runs on '486s (except UNIX of course).
- You'll like Amiga's system more that DOS.
-
- >I realize the Amiga is a theoretically superior platform but I
- >also realize that the PC platform has a huge user base, endless third party
- >support, trillions of software packages, and very competitibe pricing.
-
- True, but you won't live long enough to run all the programs available
- for either platform at this point. About 4.5 billion people on the
- planet and only about 3 million have Amigas. Enjoy the privilege.
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- _/ _/ utoddl@guitar.oit.unc.edu Mohammad, but you can't make
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