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From: wizard@sosaria.UUCP (Chris Brand)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Cost of an Amiga compared with PCs
Message-ID: <01890.AA01890@sosaria>
Date: 20 Jan 90 22:46:02 GMT
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farren@well.UUCP (Mike Farren) wrote:

> Hmm.  So what you are saying is that a system which costs (conservatively)
> seven to ten times what the Amiga does will definitely outperform it, one
> that costs only five times as much might outperform it, and one that costs
> three times as much would go neck-to-neck (without multitasking, of course :-).
> I guess this is what is known as a left-handed insult :-)

Well...to do serious work with an Amiga, you need to invest a lot more than
a standard machine costs.
For example: you need a Multisync monitor, a flickerfixer, a turboboard, a
big harddisk....costs for this go far beyond the price of a VGA 386er.


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Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
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