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From: roadman@portia.Stanford.EDU (arthur walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM/MAC -> Amiga
Summary: amax "leverages" amiga accelerators and mem
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Date: 8 Mar 90 23:10:12 GMT
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In article <46200040@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
>      I'd only suggest one thing if they go for the A2000 w/ 286 and AMAX.
> If his wife is going to do any serious work on the Mac, definitely get
> a Trump to get mac hard drive support.
>      You know, I've seen Mac+ w/ 20meg hard drives selling for $800 lately
> used, so it might be better for them just to get a used mac than a 
> AMAX combo that may or may not suit her needs.

On the other hand, an amiga accelerator and additional memory, up to 4M,
can be used by amax to make it usable.  If one buys a hedley monitor or
the ($) Moniterm, bingo, a mac screen with a usable number of pixels.

Also, you can get more than twice the disk for twice the cost, and with
the IVS HD utilities or some diskED action you can put both the mac 
bootblock, partition map and driver AND the amiga hardblocks into the 
low end of the disk.  Can you play 2 player Flight simulator over a 
null modem with the one machine? no.

Lastly, the common knowledge is that system 7.0 WILL work with a mac plus,
even if some features like virtual memory are unavailable.  So one should
have some confidence that AMAX will work immediately with 7.0, if that's
a concern in this decision.

art walker
roadman@portia.stanford.edu