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- From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
- Message-ID: <dmkasten.04gy@redorc.chi.il.us>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 03:44:13 CST
- Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network
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- Every once in a while, you may have noticed, Byte decides to give us Amiga
- users a fair deal and actually review major new releases/upgrades to the Amiga
- line of workstations and user-level machines..In this case, the Amiga 4000.
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- What the industry is now faced with, is a machine that can run full-screen
- animations (read: NOT miniature window-sized movies) at a full 30 frames per
- second, using 262,144 colors simultaneously, which puts image quality
- indiscernable from full 24-bit graphics. Ontop of that, it has an '040 under
- the hood for some pretty beefy horsepower for whatever else interests you,
- everything from DTP to 3-D modeling..A bus architecture faster than the
- Macintosh Quadra's NuBus, and EISA, and slick NeXT'ish user interface, and a
- high-speed multitasking OS driving the whole thing have been the trademarks of
- the Amiga line since day one.
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- All the bragging aside, im curious as to how the MSDOS community views this
- machine. Whats your reaction to it? Being an ex-MSDOS user myself, I can
- identify with the pretty inaccurate assumption of "Amigas are game machines"
- response, primarrily because I once believed that statement was true..So for
- those of you who still think this way, ill ask you to refrain from commenting..
- the last thing I want to have here is another Amiga vs MSDOS flame war. What id
- primarrily like to hear is the reaction from those of you who consider
- yourselves "wise" as to having experience with platforms other than your own.
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- As an Amiga user myself, the A4000 (and more specifically, the third
- [Bgeneration Amiga chipset its built around) represent a fairly substantial
- leap forward in the state of our platform, finally giving the Mac / Unix and
- especially MSDOS communities something to think about..
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- Again, I should stress that this post is NOT intended to begin an MSDOS vs
- Amiga flamewar.. Id just like to hear some comments from the other side of the
- table. :)
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- | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | Amiga 2000HD |
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