Xref: utzoo rec.music.synth:22399 comp.music:3518 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!Firewall!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!cs.ed.ac.uk!nick From: nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: rec.music.synth,comp.music Subject: Re: Amiga or Mac? Message-ID: <12467@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Date: 14 Jun 91 12:01:36 GMT References: <12411@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> Sender: nnews@cs.ed.ac.uk Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk Organization: Sally Fowler Rat Pack Lines: 39 In article , kudla@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) writes: > nick@cs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: > Is the LC an 030 machine? I don't think so.... thought it was basically a > Mac Classic with a color monitor. No, the LC has a 68020. It's missing the MMU and FPU, but that shouldn't matter. > >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..... That was meant as a joke, guys. > I suspect the Mac is gonna become a much more widely accepted platform when > the forthcoming clones introduce competition into the market.... We'll see. It's certainly interesting how Macs have taken off here in the UK now we have the cheaper prices and the Classic. All the big London music stores are forgetting the ST and offering Mac Classic and LC packages, saying things like "at last, the Macintosh at a sensible price." They're also offering Classic + Performer packages, and I somehow don't see Performer being too happy on a Classic. The only thing I have against the Amigas I've seen, to be honest, is the display. I'm used to fine-resolution multi-font text and graphics in my user interfaces (for things like Performer, for instance). And I do like the whole concept of the MIDI Management tools and patchbay interfacing. It's stupid that that MM is still unavailable to the general public. Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcsun!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ <-- WEST VIEWING ROOM EAST VIEWING ROOM -->