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From: joe@cbmvax.commodore.com (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: WB 2.0
Message-ID: <11243@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 May 90 02:53:23 GMT
References: <465@oregon.oacis.org> <11961@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> <468@oregon.oacis.org>
Reply-To: joe@cbmvax (Joe O'Hara - Product Assurance)
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In article <468@oregon.oacis.org> jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen) writes:
>In article <11961@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> nsw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Neil Weinstock) writes:
>>This doesn't really answer your question, but I just played with an A3000
>>and, to be quite honest, all the Workbench operations occurred so quickly that
>>I didn't even have time to start up something else in the meantime.
>>
>>We're talking major speed here.
>
>Unfortunately, this doesn't do much for those of us with A2000's who have
>no intention of buying a new A3000.
>
>I know you're impressed with the A3000 (so am I), but the issue with
>this question is Workbench 2.0. I think it's unfortunate that C= has
>spent so much time and money improving the look and feel of 2.0 and
>they didn't address this fundamental issue, especially when a
>prototype system was shown to BADGE (with Jim Mackraz in attendance)
>almost a year ago.

Performance improvement is a significant feature of 2.0 and will be very
noticeable on other Amiga models as well, especially systems with hard disks.
There is a world of difference between 2.0 and the software you saw last year.
Both the graphical elements (layers/graphics/intuition) and data throughput
(ffs) have had performance boosts since then.
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