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From: mikeh@touch.touch.com (Mike Haas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Keywords: Future, Amiga, etc.
Message-ID: <230@touch.touch.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 01:20:17 GMT
References: <16577@darkstar.ucsc.edu| <22163@cbmvax.commodore.com| <18@ryptyde.UUCP|
Organization: Touch Communications
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In article <18@ryptyde.UUCP| dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
|Responding to the following:
|
||"Huh?  No Macs are available with built in MIDI.  No speed switchable 68000s
||either.  They do have a more expensive machine with built-in SCSI"
|
|A more expensive machine with built-in SCSI? ALL Macs have built-in SCSI!
|Even a lot of older Macs that aren't supported anymore (Plus and up) have
|SCSI built in.

Read the guys post, you macoid!  He's saying the Mac is a more expensive
machine...PERIOD!  He's not saying SCSI is only available on high-end Macs!
And it's TRUE!  The mac has always been ABSURDLY expensive for the boring
computer you get.  Imagine...not even DMA!  Simple machine to satisfy simple
minds.

| Also, the Macintosh has fast serial ports and an OS with
|MIDI interfacing built in. What else do you want? What else is necessary
|to qualify as having built-in MIDI?

What do you mean MIDI built in to the OS?  What crap.  The amiga has fast
serial ports, too.  31.5Kbaud.  MIDI speed.  And what else is necessary?
You also need opto-isolators to convert to the MIDI hardware medium, since
it's NOT RS-232.  Your mac needs an adaptor to hook to a MIDI box, same
as the amiga.  Both machines are equally almost-MIDI-ready.  The mac has
NO advantage in either MIDI or SCSI.

But let's talk for a moment about the stereo sound on the mac...oops...
can't!  It comes with one of those really hi-fidelity 2.5" speakers.
Y'know, the ones that sound only slightly better than a transistor radio?

And since you mentioned the PLUS, how many slot does it have?  OOPS...none.
And that radical 9" screen that can display any color as long as it's
black or white!  And what raw power!  The 8Mhz 68000 in the plus has an
effective throughput of 5.75 MHz...I've measured that myself...due to the
overhead of the video interrupt.  What incredible software/hardware
integration!

The mac does have that "happy mac" face, though.  That, BTW, represents
just about the sum total of apple's innovation in the mac.  We won't
even mention from who they XEROX'ed their GUI.  And they sue other companies
for "look & feel"!  What a neat organization.

Mac...the power to take a rest!