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From: dbert@mole.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 4 Mar 91 03:01:34 GMT
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In article <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> gsm@gsm001.uucp (Geoffrey S. Mendelson) writes:
>robbins@arcadien.rice.edu (Thomas Robbins) asks about the Amiga:
>>
>>What's the deal? My friend says that it's because it has built-in
>>graphics co-processors.
>
>The Amiga has built into it graphics and sound coprocessors. They make an
>Amiga with a 7 mhz 68000 equivalent to a 25mhz 68030/68882 Mac when it comes
>to video games.  In other applications, the machine is slightly faster than
>a clasic Mac (or Mac Classic). 


I don't see why anyone thinks this is very unusual....after all, many of the
same people who designed the Amiga and made it what it is today also
designed the 8-bit Ataris.  Both were designed with co-processors to take
the workload off the main CPU, and both were designed to be great with both
graphics and sound.  Both similiarly have ignored getting their computers
recognized as being intended for very "serious" use.  I still have a working
8-bit Atari which I still used occasionally up until a couple months ago when
I got my Mac.  One of the main reasons I chose a Mac and not an Amiga w/Mac
emulation is that I remembered that trying to find *anything* software or
hardware wise for the Atari became all but impossible a couple years ago,
while the old Apple IIs are still alive (though barely!)  Macs have found their
way into businesses and Universities, while Amigas, with few exceptions,
have not.
 
Ten years from now, when the Mac "Classic" is a box containing a 80MHz
68040, 64M RAM and a 4G HD, Amigas will probably sit down in basements
like my 8-bit Atari does.  With it's color graphics and co-processors to
support it's 1.79MHz 6502, it can play better games than my Mac Plus can.
But when I want to do serious work....
 


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Doug Siebert                                     dbert@albert.ai.mit.edu
MBA Student (2nd year)
The University of Iowa