Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.tech:17899 comp.sys.amiga.hardware:6463 comp.sys.amiga:76772 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!kholland From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: AUX: terminal on Amiga Serial Port Keywords: serial,terminal Message-ID: <1991Feb18.174942.25707@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 18 Feb 91 17:49:42 GMT References: Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 44 Well I finally decided to get an amiga 3000. I looked at the PC's for awhile (especially the Gateway 2000) and thought found that the price of 286's had lowered 1000 dollars in 1.5 years, so the 386/25 EISA based machines should reach under 1200 dollars by next year. I think by then I would have the money to buy one and then I would have an Amiga 3000 and 386/25 with enough Windows based applications at low-enough price to get what I want. XGA is nothing to worry about, you might see some amiga based graphics cards with the XGA chip inside (uses a technique common to most amiga users). The applications cost too much and are not as well featured as amiga applications (ofcourse this depends, I made this judgement upon Autodesk animator which is not as nearly as goo as most amiga graphics programs). Most PC users figure that a blitter is only used for CAD programs, others don't even know what they are. There seems to be no such thing as Hardware multi-tasking, it seems that the multiple 8086 idea behind the 386 and 486 chips confuse this issue, it may be possible but not much useful at the current stage of developement. The equivalent of a Amiga 3000 in the INTEL world is a 16Mhz 386 (maybe slower) with a EISA bus, a 34010 based VGA card or XGA card, Windows 3.0, an instruction CACHE, and a ton of ICON oriented MAC quality applications. Notice that DESQview is still a choice of MSDOS users, incredibly it is going to be another 2 years before you see anything PC based that has the same features as the Amiga 3000. Also consider that most applications on the PC's don't use hardly anything to the full extent, like how many 1024X768 VGA card based PC 386's have you seen running 20 or more programs all supporting the features of the hardware (chances are nil). I think I know why PC users look at Amiga's as video game machines, becuase of the sprites (which don't have to be re-rendered each time they are moved), the Built-in DAC which makes wonderful music while you work, the ICONS on the screen that improve speed of moving from application to application becuase you can pull them out onto the workbench (without seeing any blocky BOBPUT on the screen like you see on Windows 3.0), the fact that you can use UNIX-like Shells that are text based, actually I don't know why they consider Amiga's as video game machines, the last game I bought was Legend of the Beast which came out a year ago. I'm actually looking at games like Meanstreets on the PC's, I am loking at the PC's the same way PC users look at Amiga's. WOW GREAT VIDEO GAMES, HUH. I look at Amiga's, WOW GREAT WORKSTATION. Later... --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't bother the MSDOS users, they still think Amiga's are Atari machines that were invented in 1985 that could not multi-task, had 3-4 programs available, and all were video games.