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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1308@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 91 07:40:24 GMT
References: <5068@orbit.cts.com> <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <16647@darkstar.ucsc.edu> galpin@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Dan Galpin (Amiga-quester)) writes:
>
>Okay.. Go into your favorite draw program. Draw something. Put it in the 
>clipboard (if the program even supports it). Just try putting it into one
>of your favorite documents without saving it or converting it... or
>(even worse) capturing a screen rendition as a bitmap, saving to disk, and
>loading it into the publisher. 

Well, I admit that the clipboard concept on the Amiga is not, err,
very successfull. But there really is a quasi-standard for these
things: Brushes. They are understood by most of the graphics/drawing
programs and also by the DTP programs.

>>> [Amiga's don't have enough power.]
>... Sorry.. I meant that A500's and A2000's don't have enough power.. the 
>3000 certainly does ...
>>
>>not enough power eh?  you call 50 Mhz not enough power?  show me a Mac with 50
>** [What C= computer runs at 50 Mhz? ] **

It's a quite normal policy to let some of upgrade and add-on features up
to the 3rd parties. This device *IS* available, it exists, so it may be
used as a pro argument for the Amiga.

>>  a 500 is a low end computer, that means
>>it's designed to be sold cheap.  you can't have tons of features and still be
>>cheap. 
>** [Obviously a pessimist] **

No, a realist. But you should know Commodore enough that you'll get
the features from them always at an adequate price, while one can
argue for days about Apple prices.

>[*** WARNING. TANGENT APPROACHING! ***]
>(*** BY the way.. have you checked MacGeek (The Macintosh Weekly Magazine) :-)
>lately.. People sell 50Mhz MacIIFX repackages with 128MBytes of RAM (using
>16 MB simms.) Show me an Amiga that can currently be expanded to 128Megs of RAM.

From its architecture, sure the A3000, though at this moment I really
know no company actually offering thus big RAM cards. But Dave Haynie
already explained how much RAM you can cram today on a Zorro III board
(I remember he resulted in 64 MB), so that you would be able to have
these 128 MB on 2 boards. Ok, this is yet theory, but how long?

>Radius has a 68040 accelerator for the Macs with 24-bit color built into the
>board. Don't even THINK of comparing Amiga accelerator peripherals with those
>available to Mac users. ***)
>[*** Tangent gone ***]

Oh, I think about such toys nearly every day! I can imagine them in
an A3000 very nicely.

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