Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!nstn.ns.ca!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Blitter vs. 040 (was: Computer Architecture question Message-ID: <1991May19.124802.19879@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <7haHkcs5@cs.psu.edu> <1991May18.104457.28023@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: Sun, 19 May 1991 12:48:02 GMT In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > I was just refering to your disdain for DOS emulators. You seem to > think that they are completely useless. No, just vastly overrated. If you're buying a NeXT over an Amiga or Mac because of SoftPC, you should be buying an Amiga or a Mac and a cheap IBM clone as well. It'd be a better use of your resources. I have a PC clone here at home. It runs my BBS (Taronga Park, +1 713 568 0480). Oh, and in reference to Mike Schwartz, the BBS is written in an interpreted language. Under UNIX. I couldn't do that in an emulator, because it has to be up all the time. If you have an occasional need to run a DOS program, that's one thing, but that's not a reason to buy a more expensive machine. I'd say the same thing about AMAXX is if wasn't for the fact that you're buying a cheaper machine to do the job. If the NuTek MacOS clone actually comes out, I might buy AMAXX. The NuTek software sound better designed than what Apple has found themselves with after 7 years of patches to a toaster. > Would a blitter in the NeXT be scrolling as fast as it can? It can > only move data 16 bits at a time, correct? My blitter moves 32 bits at a time. I have a 3000. In reference to the Amiga having an entry-level machine... > So, does the NeXT, it just costs $5000. :-) Smiley indeed. An "entry level" machine refers to one that an average man on the street could afford. Not the privileged elite who can get daddy to plunk down $3000 for a NeXT, or for whom $5000 just means they'll have to take this season's skiing vacation in Vail instead of St. Moritz. If it lists for more than 1-2 grand it's not entry level (unless it's a car, or a house...). > A $999 030(32 bit bus) > Amiga with a flicker fixer would be nice, but how long do you think it > will be before you see one? Perhaps if Commodore used one of Motos > new 030's without an MMU. I've suggested that. An MMU is of marginal value in an Amiga. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .