Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!ncar!mephisto!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!jma From: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MAC ][cx appraisal Message-ID: <22764@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 28 Mar 90 08:01:14 GMT References: <15049@snow-white.udel.EDU> <1990Mar27.220306.24913@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 17 Sure, you could believe that a Mac IIcx with say, oh, four megs MINIMUM runs better than an Amiga 2000. But take the price difference, buy an 8meg RAM card, a flickerFixer, and a multisync, and IMHO (which is the only one that really matters to me after all) you'll have a system which runs circles around any other 0x0,x86 machine. Sure, the Mac can multitask under Multifinder -OR- or A/UX, but both require MEGS of memory. Let's face it. There's a certain charm to multitasking in 512k. [Tangent of how much memory is required to get an IBM to multitask tastefully left out...] -- John M. Adams --*-- Professional Student on the six-year plan! /// Internet: jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu -or- vladimir@maple.circa.ufl.edu /// "Houston, we have a negative on that orbit trajectory." Calvin & Hobbs \\V// Cosysop of BBS:42; an Amiga bbs running QBBS. 904-438-4803. (Florida) \X/