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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 4000????
Message-ID: <60.27197f07@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 15 Oct 90 13:19:03 GMT
References: <3487@mindlink.UUCP>
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In article <3487@mindlink.UUCP>, a708@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait) writes:
> 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...)
> 

Yeah but is AmigaVision out for it?  M1 Tank Platoon?  Jet?  f18?  

Grin.  Nevermind.  I know that you will not realize that price is not the
whole banana.  

> Gord Wait

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