Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu!hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu!gaynor From: gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Surely a IIFX blows an Amiga 3000 away, right? Keywords: flamey Message-ID: <5592@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu> Date: 11 Oct 90 20:57:50 GMT References: <1990Oct11.002137.11988@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1990Oct11.031828.452@wam.umd.edu> <15036@hydra.gatech.EDU> Sender: news@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: alt.flame Organization: The Ohio State University (IRCC) Lines: 58 In article <15036@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastcr@prism.gatech.EDU (Russo, Chris A.) writes: > > It's really sad that the Amiga 1000 blows all of the Macs away in >one important area. >>Animation speed<< > It breaks my heart to see my friend's $1500 system move windows around, >run games, and perform the 100 thousand other tasks needed to run a graphical >interface - about a billion times faster than my $5000 box. Warning. I've gotten sick of reading these posts about how fast a 68030 Amiga emulates a 68000 B/W Mac. The following post is a tad flamey. Followup to alt.flame, please. Let's not litter comp.sys.mac -or- comp.sys.amiga with a useless computer war. [My terminal is eating ctrl chars - can't insert a pause. Sorry.] I'm one of the first to admit it - the Amiga is a graphics monster. It's had an independent graphics processor since day one. And a blitter chip for moving big windows. It was built around the idea of multitasking. Rather than having multitasking added on. BUT: The OS, -out-of-the-box-, is awful. Lots of customizations that can make it sweet, but these take knowledge. Not for the casual user. My fiance has had an Amiga for almost a year, and I amazed her when I brought up a CLI - all she had seen was Workbench. Workbench 2.0 is -still- beta, months after it's official announcment. (Before you start System 7.0 bashing, remember, it hasn't been -offically- announced) The -vast- majority of software for the Amiga is games. And the pirate community runs rampant on the Amiga, making serious development houses even less likely to development -good- software for the Amiga. Application consistency, beyond the idea of a menu bar, is almost unheard of. Cut and paste? Scrapbook? INITs? Control Panel? HA! I owned a Mac Plus for a year. Sold it after being seduced by NewTek Demo Reel #1, and bought an Amiga. I had lots of games, and great video/animation. But nothing that even vaguely stacked up to my old Mac in the way of Word Processing, or Draw programs. If it was on the screen, great. If I wanted it on paper - Ha! Sure, an Amiga 3000 running Amax kicks a IIcx or even a IIci. It's a bloody 68030 chip in the 3000, providing Mac Plus abilities. Color? Sound? Virtual monitors? Appletalk? 32-bit color? Show me an Amiga 3000 doing the same work the 68030 Macs do. Then we'll compare. I've used both. I'll take my Mac. Thank you. Flames to dev/null. -=- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jim Gaynor - The Ohio State Univ. - IRCC - Facilities Mgmt. - OCES | | Email [gaynor@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu], [gaynor@agvax2.ag.ohio-state.edu] | |_ "Don't tell me truth hurts, little girl; because it hurts like hell..." _|