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From: rachamp@mbunix.mitre.org (Richard A. Champeaux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xetec controller
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Date: 7 Jul 89 13:24:31 GMT
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In article <13240030@hprmokg.HP.COM> alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington) writes:
>There is a discussion going on a local BBS here about Amiga World.
>Everyone has come to the conclusion that it is by far the most useless
>Amiga magazine out there.  Articles like this seem to make that
>statement true.
>
>| -Al Harrington                   /// "The next thing I say to you will   |

If I remember right, the AmigaWorld article didn't say that the Xetec 
controller was the best.  They said that if you are willing to spend the
money, then the HardFrame 2000 was the one to get because it had the best
overall times.  They said that the Xetec had the distinction of having the
fastest transfer rate for 256k buffers.  (probably due to the bug that was
mentioned)  The Xetec was their second choice.

I wouldn't say that AmigaWorld is useless.  Sure, it may not be high on
content, and definitely not a hacker's magazine (Amiga Transactor is the
the one to get if you're looking for a hacker's magazine.), but AmigaWorld
does have a lot of advertisements, and that's exactly why I like it.

It's kind of like Computer Shopper, which is the best magazine to get if you're
looking for something like drives, monitors, and printers.  About 350 pages
of the 400 pages Computer Shopper has are advertisements.  Although the
ratio isn't as big in AmigaWorld, it does seem to attract more advertisers than
the other amiga magazines.

Rich Champeaux (rachamp@mbunix.mitre.org)