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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jun22.072601.945@ncsu.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 07:26:01 GMT
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>> Drop back to 320x200x8-bit color on a decent VGA card with even a lesser
>> Intel cpu, and it can play back animations just as well as the Amiga can.
>
> Possibly... "just as well". A $2000 33 MHz 32/32 CPU doing "just as well"
> as a $500 7 MHz 16/32 CPU. I'm supposed to be disappointed?

Gee, you're not "supposed" to be anything, Pete.  Except perhaps the
sensible guy whom I was glad to see come back from his trip to Oz :-).
Methinks the .advocacy "bash-it" atmosphere is getting to us all <sigh>.

But no, it doesn't have to be a 386/33... even an 8086 can pretty well,
if combined with a no-wait VGA card in double-buffering mode.  Question:
why are we comparing a $2000 machine (which probably comes with an 80meg HD,
1-4M RAM, lotsa slots, SVGA and a monitor) with a barebones $500 A500?

regards - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>