Xref: utzoo comp.sys.amiga.misc:1465 comp.sys.mac.misc:9227 Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!timbuk!cs.umn.edu!quest!orbit!zuhause!bruce From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 05:50:31 GMT References: <27253@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Mar3.223546.12173@rice.edu> <1991Mar4.013846.26519@gsm001.uucp> <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: Society to Stamp Out Bogus Organizations Lines: 20 In article <1991Mar4.030134.7183@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> dbert@mole.ai.mit.edu (Douglas Siebert) writes: >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.... Ten years from now, the Amiga 500 equivalent will probably be a 80 MHz 68040, etc., but sells for two-thirds the price of the Mac. Today's stock Amiga 3000 contains a 25 MHz 68030+68882 FPU (extra on most MacIIs), 2 Mbytes RAM (expandable to 18 Mbytes on the motherboard), 50 Mbytes SCSI HD, for less than the cost of a slower MacII without an FPU. The Amiga 3000 was designed so one can add a 68040 card to the machine. There are several important applications where the ones available for the Amiga pale in comparison to the Mac apps (spreadsheets, for example), there are others like WP/DTP where the Amiga ones are just as good, and are cheaper. As to doing serious work on the Mac, its lack of a command line interface makes it painful to do anything that can and should be automated. bruce@zuhause.mn.org