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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
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Date: 8 Mar 90 11:29:33 GMT
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In <4252@vaxwaller.UUCP>, richc@vaxwaller.UUCP (Rich Commins) writes:
>
>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.

Look at results, not specs.

>  A 640x400 16 color
>interlaced display today is a joke.  A 640x400 noninterlaced display with
>only 4 colors is laughable.

Well, make that 640*400 with 16 colours, and it's less laughable.  Mention
that it can be directly recorded onto videotape or put out to a TV, and
it's a LOT less of a joke, if you happen to require NTSC capability.  If
you don't, fine.  Just proves that not everyone's needs are the same.
It would be just as valid for me to talk about NTSC and HAM mode and say
that only 256 colours is a joke, and that VGA is laughable. Want to talk
about animation? Want to talk about seamless multitasking without having
to mortgage the house or put up with running only certain programs
together?

  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.

Very little flicker and no NTSC compatibility. Better? No, just different.

>  A comparable AMIGA system would require
>a flicker fixer at least to get a 640x400 noninterlaced 16 color
>display (about $500 more).

How much for an NTSC converter?

>  The real world price of a comparable system does not exist unfortuneately.

Ahh.. my point exactly. There is no comparison. There is no such thing as
'a comparably equipped '386 machine'.

> 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. 

The only reasons CBM is not competetive is because the market that buys
the most machines doesn't think the Amiga has much going for it. The
reason I don't buy a '386 machine is because I don't think it has much
going for it. Such is life.

-larry

--
Entymology bugs me.
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