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From: a708@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 4000????
Message-ID: <3487@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 16:48:18 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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You can purchase a sparc station now (no disk) for about $5 K US
dollars.. Add to it a SCSI drive for say $2 K and you have a workable sparc for
$7 K US. This comes with 1152 by 900 70 hz display, full unix etc. I use an
Amiga 1000 at home and a sparcstation 1 at work. They do not compare. The amiga
is low cost, but can do good (LO-RES) animations etc. Amiga SW is low cost. On
the Sparc, I can do ASIC chip simulations that require 70 meg virtual memory
and reasonable speed (ie 12 mips to .1 mip) so I can finish my project this
decade. When you put a 68040 in a 2500/3000 amiga and add 8 meg ram, hi res
screen, and add enough stuff to Support Unix, THEN you can compare... but then
your price on the amiga side is getting awfully close to a sparc.....
(I like both machines, I just wanted to throw my two bits into the fire...)

Gord Wait