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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Message-ID: <2044@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 9 Mar 90 14:14:56 GMT
References: <1181@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <4252@vaxwaller.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
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In article <4252@vaxwaller.UUCP> richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
*In article <1181@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
** In <5527@ur-cc.UUCP>, jea@merlin.cvs.rochester.edu (Joanne Albano) writes:
** *Several folk here claim that an equivalently loaded IBM-clone
** *system with 40 meg HD, 3 Megs ram, '386 and VGA graphics with
** *monitor costs $600-800 less than than the A2500/30 at $3600
** *(ed discount price). Is this true?
*
*Even with a 68030 running at 33 MHz the AMIGA would still have its
*co-processors running at 7 MHz.  The death knell of the AMIGA is in the
*fact that CBM did not keep pace with its co-processors.  A 640x400 16 color
*interlaced display today is a joke.  A 640x400 noninterlaced display with
*only 4 colors is laughable.  The system I discribed has a 800x600 noninterlaced
*256 color display and a 1024x768 interlaced 16 color display at 84 Hz
*which has very little flicker.  A comparable AMIGA system would require
*a flicker fixer at least to get a 640x400 noninterlaced 16 color
*display (about $500 more).  The real world price of a comparable system
*does not exist unfortuneately. I am very disapointed with CBM. I still
*feel they were the first with a real-time operating system and higher
*resolution screens but didn't keep improving the product fast enough 
*to stay competitive. 

Yes, 1024x768 resolution when you get the driver for each piece of software
that can use these kludges.  Add multi-tasking and you can't keep up for
double the cost of a 2500/30.  But hey, TSR's are the same thing as 
multi-tasking, right? 8^).  Any program I run is capable of running on ANY
Amiga system regardless of display types.  We will never see any resolve of
comparing apples to oranges.  Use the right tool for the right job, whatever
the case.

Steve
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