Xref: utzoo rec.music.synth:22374 comp.music:3499 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!rpi!kudla From: kudla@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music Subject: Re: Amiga or Mac? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 91 18:26:42 GMT References: <12411@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Lines: 42 Nntp-Posting-Host: aix01srv.aix.rpi.edu nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >You reckon? I'm using an SE/30, I admit, but MIDI Manager 2.0.1, PatchBay, >Performer, a large patch librarian and System 7.0 all run with acceptable >performance. Is the LC an 030 machine? I don't think so.... thought it was basically a Mac Classic with a color monitor. >I won't get into the Amiga vs. Mac wars. That's best left to those who >think that preemptive multitasking is more important than a powerful and >consistent high-quality software environment. You just got into them with that last comment..... I don't know why you're bitching. I have an Amiga, use Music-X when I'm MIDI-ing, and would probably have gone Mac except I can't afford the system I'd like (my only other gripe with the Mac besides the price is the lack of scripting capability which is coming soon anyway). You can get pre-emptive multitasking by running A/UX, though admittedly at the moment it's not too happy with System 7. (For those who say A/UX isn't "real" Mac multitasking: bullshit, you can run Finder as a task under A/UX and as far as I know that means you can run several Mac sessions at once. Not quite as elegant, but fine for most applications.) I suspect the Mac is gonna become a much more widely accepted platform when the forthcoming clones introduce competition into the market.... I can't imagine using anything else that's currently available for digital recording, for example (barring possibly the new Alesis DTR's which I haven't seen yet). System 7.0 wails, and I was one of the ones ragging on it the most up until I used it a few times in the last couple weeks. That said, the way things are right now, I'm keeping my Amiga..... maybe in the future I'll bag it in favor of a CDTV or something, but it's a fast, friendly, sleek and flexible little beast, and cheap too. There are some things I can do with my $1000 Amiga 500 system that I simply can't do with my friend's $15,000 Mac IIfx workstation, and that alone is enough to convince me there's no reason to bag either one. -- Robert Jude Kudla, for the moment.... "Oh, forgive me, Assembly'O'God! Oh Jaysus, I jest stuck the tip in, oh ma god...."