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From: ddev@wam.umd.edu (Don DeVoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A rough future for the Amiga??? I think not.
Summary: Give it up...
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Date: 8 Apr 90 01:39:40 GMT
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In article <16192@snow-white.udel.EDU> 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) writes:
  
>	Well, I've read Byte's review of the IIfx, and I find it a joke.  First
>off, as I posted earlier, Apple is outright lying in its advertisements.  There
>are several "innovations" "developed" by Apple that put it on a level with the
>Amiga 2000.  It is "the first computer to use coprocessors" to relieve the
>68030 of the "mundane" tasks.  The SCSI/DMA, the "6 Nubus" ports etc, etc.
>
>	The only things I've seen so far that puts it ahead of the A2500/30 is:
>
> 1.  a 40mhz cpu (oooh, ahhh! like no one else will have that in about a month)

Like Commodore is going to have a 40 Mhz Amiga out anytime soon?  But that's 
beside the point.  For years, 24 bit boards have been available for the Mac,
for monitors of most any size. Ohhh, ahhh...

> 2.  The 24 bit graphics accellerator card standard component.
>
>[etc...etc...etc...]

Please. Just stop it. These constant comlaints about how the 'Apple marketing
geeks/nerds' have been creating elaborate lise to trick the public into
buying a IIfx over an Amiga are geting really tiresome.  Since you're so
fond of quoting these 'outrageous' ads, you could at least quote properly.
You say that the Apple ad for the IIfx claims to be the first computer to
use coprocessors to help relieve the main processor. No. The actual quote is
as follows: "...It is also the first personal computer to have two 
additional processors - with the power of two additional personal computers -
to manage the flow of information inside." Now consider: Do the Amiga's
blitter, copper, etc. themselves have the power of additional personal
computers???  Nope, they don't.  The IIfx uses, I believe, two 6502 to
aid with i/o, and therein lies the difference.  Next time, think before you 
post, especially when the posting has the potential to get so many people
into a frenzied mob mentality (Look, there go those damn Apple Marketing
Geeks, lets get 'em!!! - yes that's what you all sound like...ok, not all,
but enough to make the entire Amiga community look stupid).
	The Amiga is a great machine with some great things going for it.
Why is it that Amiga owners (yes, I used to be one, and I still like the
machine a lot) look at the Mac as the anti-christ, and feel compelled
to slander it whenever possible?  If some of us would just calm down a little,
the world would be a nicer place...

--
Don DeVoe
ddev@epsl.umd.edu
So you wanna flame me?  Good, it was getting cold in here anyway...