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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 13 Mar 91 23:44:43 GMT
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In article <4239.27de4b9d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>In article <1991Mar12.224905.4774@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>> been overpricing their products for years! The Mac Classic is nothing more than
>> a repackaged Mac (e.g. Old technology) with a slightly lower price and a 
>
>The Classic was totally redesigned. I forget the numbers, but it uses 
>significantly less amount of chips than the Mac Plus, and it is faster than 
>the old SE. I believe Amax or Spectre for the ST would have trouble keeping 
>up with it now.

(I wonder whathappened to all those old Mac Plus's setting in warehouses then.
;-))

>> new name. Apple release more innovative products than any computer company?
>> NAME THEM. Not a single Mac computer is ahead of it's time, nor does it
>> deliver hardware power for a low price. The 7mhz Amiga 1000 can 
>> outperform the Mac IIfx at graphics sound and animation, and it was released
>> in 1985.
>
>I would like to see how an Amiga 1000 would compare to a IIfx!! (Right, 
>this is a good matchup.) The IIfx is a mighty formidable machine, I'd like 
>to see Unix running on a A1000.

  I was talking about SOUND & Animation, not Unix. You'll never see
anything like Shadow of the Beast on the IIfx.

This whole Apple thread is becoming boring. Apple, THE COMPANY, stinks
as far as their business ethics are concerned. Mac Classic, the computer,
stinks as far as what you get with it for the price.

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