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From: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Summary: Unix too!
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Date: 20 Mar 91 14:41:38 GMT
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In article <1991Mar19.025518.17215@NCoast.ORG>, davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:

[lots of stuff about Apple GUI and other bits removed

> 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.

And on that note, I found out today that even most of the major Unix's
for the PC (from Intel, AT&T, Interactive, SCO, etc) cannot use more
than 16 MB, as that is the most you can use on the standard AT bus. In
fact, as far as I know, only Interactive supports more than 16MB in an
EISA-bus machine, and that only as an optional (expensive) extra.
With the Amiga there are No Such Limitations.
Go Amiga :-)

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