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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: Amiga DTP isn't catching up quite fast enough...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.180617.5413@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:06:17 GMT
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- In article <5NOV199211292562@rigel.tamu.edu> cpw8034@rigel.tamu.edu
- (Alan Wen (409) 693-2924) writes:
-
- >First off, what kind of refresh rate can you possibly get in a scalable
- >typeface prg like PageStream2.2 on an '020 based A1200? Please, even an
- >A3000/25 is unacceptable.
-
- The AGA chipset will make screen *redraws* much more efficient than the
- 030-based A3000.
-
- >Sure the A1200 has the AA chipset, but it's not exactly an A4000...
-
- Not in terms of the CPU, but the chipset is identical.
-
- >..and what prg's are you going to use with your amiga? Why isn't
- >MicroSoft (now bigger than IBM) porting over Word or Excel?
-
- I would suggest looking into end-of-year reports from both companies.
- Microsoft is an order of magnitude smaller than IBM. The rationale for
- not developing Microsoft Amiga software has very little to do with
- hardware capabilities. It's simply a matter of return on investment.
-
- [flame bait deleted]
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-