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From: farren@sat.com (Michael J. Farren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga and Mac emulation, too!
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.014156.13439@sat.com>
Date: 13 Mar 91 01:41:56 GMT
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klingspo@mozart.cs.colostate.edu writes:
>As for my personal views on the Amiga, send email. ;)  Yes, it's a nice
>Nintendo replacement or dumb terminal.
>
>I doubt that things run faster than a Mac Plus.  The Amiga just doesn't
>seem "up to snuff," and anti-Amiga flames are acceptable here,

Well, my first impluse was to flame unmercifully, but I decided against it.

No offense, but you don't know your Amiga very well.  A stock Amiga with
AMAX installed runs at a CPU speed somewhat slower than a Mac Plus, but
with a significantly higher I/O speed, writing to disks.  Makes it about
even.  An A3000 with AMAX, on the other hand, outperforms everything but
the IIfx (using Speedometer on the Mac end).

As far as the "Nintendo replacement", I suggest that there's a lot more to
the Amiga than you are aware of.  I'm not saying it's _better_ than a Mac -
it's _different_ than a Mac.  Amiga does a number of things in a much
better way than the Mac does, and vice versa.  Downgrading it to the
status of a Nintendo is just a display of bias on your part, not knowledge.

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| Michael J. Farren                                      farren@sat.com |
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