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From: jeff@fang.clearpoint.com (Jeffrey J. Griglack)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Competitiveness.
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Date: 26 Sep 90 11:57:21 GMT
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In article <4661@crash.cts.com> seanc@pro-party.cts.com (Sean Cunningham) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu
>
> 
>Question is though...those low-cost i386 clones, are they from Compaq? AST?
>DELL?  Or any other "leading" brand of clone?  Or are they Saturday night
>specials, made up of whatever was cheapest that week, and a case made from
>plastic that was rejected from Revel?
> 
>Sean

I have seen some major brands for very low prices.  I have actually toyed
with the idea of selling my Amiga 2000 and getting a 386 machine.  The big
hurdle, cost-wise, is an operating system (I hate MSDOS).  Windows 3.0 makes
this option a little more attractive until you play with Windows and realize
how bulky (I'm not sure that that is the word I am looking for) it is.

A faster 68020, even with 16 bit data access, is a reasonable alternative
to the 68000.  It may be time to retrofit the 2000 with an '020 and an
MMU so there can be memory protection.  

I do not see an '020 card addition as a good alternative.  It cheaper to 
fit the '020 onto the mother board.  What do you say, Comadore?

Jeff Griglack



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