Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!bagate!dsinc!unix.cis.pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!passaret From: passaret@brahe.crd.ge.com ("Mr. Mike" Passaretti) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500) Message-ID: <17621@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Date: 15 Mar 91 17:00:35 GMT References: <91MAR12.134551@ducvax.auburn.edu> <1991Mar13.131004.9647@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Mar14.003252.27833@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Mar14.182414.11033@neon.Stanford.EDU> <19884@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Mar Sender: news@crdgw1.crd.ge.com Reply-To: Organization: GE Corporate Research & Development Lines: 60 In-reply-to: torrie@cs.stanford.edu's message of 15 Mar 91 09:29:20 GMT In article <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes: # # >It is a moot point, since the Mac # >OS can't use more that 16MB (sure, cheap shot, but it was a big target...). # #Depends what version of the OS you're using, 6.0 or 7.0. Well, I'm using 6.07, and I'm looking at the docs right here, and it says "Your Macintosh computer can hold 8 1MB SIMMs or 8 4MB SIMMs for a total of 8 or 32 MB" I tried 32 MB, but only 8 showed up. Oh well. Guess I'll go out and get System 7.0. What? I can't buy that? For ANY Mac? Oh. So I should put 128MB in and not see 120MB of it? Great idea there. # >Well, that's what Apple is announcing this year. # >Like CDTV, or Mac OS release 7, we'll believe it when it's out. # # Apple has a better track record than Commodore of making products #available immediately upon announcement... when was that OS 2.0 #for non-3000 owners supposed to be available?? Commodore has not yet announced the release of that product. Shall I repeat that? Commodore employees have said that such a thing will, no doubt, happen, but there has been (as far as I know, and I read a LOT of the industry rags) no OFFICIAL announcement of a release date. While this may be a fine point, it's better than announcing it and moving it 3 or 4 times, then trimming off features to make even those dates. At least there are legitimate USER copies of 2.0 available, and not Beta mumble.mumble stuff that everybody can Ooh and Aah over, but you can't go out and buy. Not even with a IIfx can I get System 7.0. End of comparison. I've been running 2.0 now for about 6 months, and I have yet to find anything that's not a game that doen't run seamlessly (except for some PD stuff). And it will run on my 1000. System 7.0 REALLY doen't like my Plus. And you can forget the 512e that's gathering dust here somewhere. Oh, and the Amiga OS has, for a long time, supported as much memory as you can throw at it. Of course, it doesn't require a 2MB machine to run it either, so you may not need as much. 'Nuff said. #Evan Torrie. Stanford University, Class of 199? torrie@cs.stanford.edu #define CHEAP_SHOT Wait to you get out in the "Real World"(tm) before you start telling people who've been doing this for a living for years how the industry works, OK? #endif /* CHEAP_SHOT */ - MM P.S. Sorry for the flamage, but the misinformation about 7.0 AND 2.0 on the net is worse than anything Ollie and co. ever dreamed of. -- passaretti@crd.ge.com {whatever}!crdgw1!brahe!passaret