Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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From: drews@bmerh796.bnr.ca (Drew Stevens)
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.200326.16487@bmerh409.bnr.ca>
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Organization: S.I.R. Tools - BNR Ltd.
References: <1991Jun11.204407.16603@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 91 20:03:26 GMT

A few days ago I noticed this newsgroup and thought I'd have a look.
To be honest I don't know much about the Amiga but the near-religous
attitude its users seem to have has caught my interest.  I was 
particularly interested by the comments which praise the machine's
hardware support for multitasking and wonderful graphics.  It was 
also suggested that VGA-based IBMs were 'toys' by comparison.

Could someone expand on these statements?  A $2000 386/33Mhz actually
multitasks quite well under OS2/UNIX/WIN3.  The CPU provides
virtual memory support, memory protection, and pre-emptive multitasking.
Also, a $100 SuperVGA card provides resolutions up to 1024x768 
(non-interlaced up to 800x600) and a quarter-million colour palette.

Which Amiga configurations are available that offer superior capabilities
and how expensive is such a system?

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Any opinions expressed are mine alone.
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