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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
Message-ID: <14983@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 90 20:07:53 GMT
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In article <3395@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>ragg0270@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Richard Alan Gerber) writes:
>>Mac LC $3,098. 68020 processor. 2 Meg RAM. Hard Disk. Color capabilities.
>
>I can't comment too much on the Mac LC, because I don't remember what the list
>price of the Amiga 2500/20 is for comparison. Can you still buy a 68020 based
>Amiga? Most people would probably just go ahead and buy a 2500/30 or a 3000
>nowadays.
>

	Well, the 2500/20 isn't even sold any more... but ANY '020-based Ami
with 32-bit RAM will drastically outrun the LC... reason being the LC
is an '020 machine only by virtue of having an '020:  the rest of the machine
is 16-bit.  16-bit bus (yes, I know, you'll also get this on any Ami short
of the 3000) and 16-bit memory, apparently with no allowance for adding 32-bit
RAM.
	Not to mention the fact that the only way to add a math coprocessor to
any of these machines is to put it on a card plugged into your single
expansion slot; then you have to go out over the expansion bus to get to it, 
running into all the usual NuBus bottlenecks along the way (something like
5 MHz tops?).

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