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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar19.025518.17215@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 19 Mar 91 02:55:18 GMT
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In article <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>Hypercard, Multifinder and even A/UX [which runs old Mac applications
>as a task under Unix...something the Amiga can't do comparably with
>Amiga applications].
	Could this be because Mac aps are so severly limitied in the first
place, being deisgned for a *still* single tasking, single threaded OS that
it makes little difference if it is running under Unix, and that they make so
little use of the real hardware available that it again matters little what
they are running on?
>  What has Commodore done in the same period?  Amigas still seem to
>have the same old colour restrictions, pretty much the same old
>resolutions, pretty much the same old graphics chip set.  If
	Gee, I don't seem to remember being able to do 1280x450 when I got my
first Amiga 1000. I don't remember being even able to do more than 16 colors
at 640x400, and certainly no more than 32 than at 320x400, nowhere near the
colors/resolutions available widely today with HAM or HAM-E. Besides, the
graphics are only one part of ANY machine. I care more about how much
CPU horsepower is left for running *MY* tasks, not spent on an O/S that
gets in the way of what I want to do.
>[Before you flame, read and consider carefully.  Ask yourself, "What
>has Commodore done over the past 5 years to the Amiga?" ]
	Gee, how about things like:
1) Added the fastest 16-bit BUS in the <less than mini sized> computer world?
2) Added the fastest 32-bit BUS in the <less than mini and maybe some mini
	sized> computer world?
3) Provided an OS which will allow you to basically add enough RAM to your
	system to satisfy *ANY* user, with no real limitations in sight.
	Compare to OS/2 which is STILL (even though OS/2 is not widely used
	anyway) limited to a mere 16 meg of RAM, and almost ALL of the Macs
	in existance, which can't even use more than a fourth of that RAM
	without some kind of hardware hack.
Just a few, which to me are more important than any amount of "pretty"
graphics.

			Dave