Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: New Macs Message-ID: <1503@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 04:44:35 EST Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1503 Posted: Fri Mar 6 04:44:35 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Mar-87 06:21:03 EST References: Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 46 > Mike - > > How can you say the Amiga 1000 (or even the 2000) is a better > machine?!? > The Mac II moves almost 4 times as fast! They can put a software coded, > multi-tasking op-system in there and it'll still run 2 to 3 times as fast. > > Oh when is the A3000 going to come out with a real 68020? > > -- Chad Better is a relative term -- a Mac II _might_ very well be 4 times faster, but its probably also 4-6 times more expensive. And its not out yet, so I certainly can't tell you if its that much better than an A1000 or A2000 (and you can tell from my signature that I'd be totally unbiased in my evaluation, had I a Mac II on my desk now). As is, my Amiga 1000 at home or Amiga 2000 at work can do work faster overall than any currently existing MacIntosh. And I could get up early tomorrow (yea, right), call CSA, and order a 68020 board and some mighty-fast 32 bit memory. Now, today, with a year-1/2 old A1000, or a real cheap A500 even. And the A1000's OS, as is, will work just dandy with that 68020, maybe 4 times faster, with its currently existing multitasking, real time, message passing, etc. OS. Meanwhile, you're waiting for a Mac II, which you probably can't get 'till the summer, which will cost you much more, and will still only do one thing at a time (certainly fast) until you fork out additional geeters for UNIX or some similar OS. And then you still won't be real-time and message passing, so the Amiga concept of small, fast tasks (that, really, can hurt each other if you let them) passes you by. I'm sure the Mac II will do well, especially with UNIX, as a replacement for something like a Sun-2 or Sun-3 (heck, a stock Mac or Amiga isn't much slower, CPU-wise, than a Sun-2). And the A2000 will do well too. Or I'm gonna break some bones! :-) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ __ ____ ____ _____ _____ _____ Dave Haynie /// / _ | / __ \ / _ \ / _ \ / _ \ Commodore Technology /// / / | | /_/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\ /// / /__| | ____/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | |\\/// / ____ | / ____/ | | | | | | | | | | | | \\// / / | | | |____ | |_| | | |_| | | |_| | {ihnp4,etc.}!cbmvax!daveh \/ /_/ |_| \______| \_____/ \_____/ \_____/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~