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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar4.021004.28075@javelin.es.com>
Date: 4 Mar 91 02:10:04 GMT
References: <27253@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> <98707@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
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Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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tesst4@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith) writes:

>cost so much less.  But then I used the thing.  A feeling of amateurishness
>pervaded the entire system: the keyboard, the mouse, the operating system,
>the speed of the hard drive.  After using it, I realized _why_ the Mac costs

Yes, Workbench 1.3 and earlier leave a lot to be desired, but Workbench
2.0 is at least the equal of any GUI on the market.

As to the hard drive speed, surely you jest! Unless someone managed to
get a dog-slow HD and controller on the Amiga (Possible, there are some
bad ones out there), the Amiga simply flies compare to the Mac's pokey
hard drive speeds. With the Quantum and Wren drives I've got on my A3000
I get between 900 and 1000 KBytes per second transfer rates, through the
file system. And I've measured 1.9 MEGABYTES/second on a Fujitsu 1.2 GB
drive I had on loan.

As this line of discussion is going to burst into unrestrained flames,
I've set the followup-to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy, is there a similar Mac
group?
-- 
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