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From: jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH)
Subject: Re: My next machine: Amiga or PC Clone? Help me out.
Organization: McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 00:28:30 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.213628.4779@utstat.uucp> philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough) writes:
>In article <1992Sep26.154057.5965@cs.mcgill.ca> jerry@cs.mcgill.ca (Gerald (Jerry) KUCH) writes:
>
>[ ]
>>
>>>found in Scientific Word (for Windows). Few people know about Scientific
>>>Word, but it is one application that makes a PC worth buying.
>>
>>I find that graphical/visual front-ends to TeX/LaTeX tend to defeat some of
>>the purpose of having a logical-based document preparation system.  That's
>>just a philosophical thing though.  I'd take TeX with a faster compiler
>>and previewer anyday.
>
>Scientific Word is not WYSIWYG. It uses, as Lamport says, as logical design.
>Thus lines breaks, formatting, etc...don't appear on the screen as in the 
>dvi file. Think of Scientific Word as Equation Builder, NeXT TeX and 
>TeX menu all in one. You can use Scientific Word just as a LaTeX user would.
>Or you can load documenstyles in a mouse way, create equations in a mouse
>way( or command equivalents). It's really LaTeX philosophy carried out to
>dealing with the mundane hassles of typing in commands for equations. It's
>not WYSIWYG. You can't, for example, highlight words with a mouse and change 
>the font. You'd like it. Even the TeX purists have good things to say about it.
>

I'll have to try to get a look at it.  It sounds interesting.  I still prefer
to avoid moving my hands over to a mouse though, when I could endlessly 
type lovely things like

$$f(z_0)\cdot I(\gamma,z_0)={1\over 2\pi i}\int_\gamma {f(z) \over z-z_0}dz$$

:-) :-) :-)

>Philip McDunnough
>philip@utstat.toronto.edu


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From: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Struggling computer science student needs a free A4000.
Keywords: give money now!
Date: 30 Sep 92 08:42:18 GMT
Reply-To: hjalmar@cbmswe.se.so.commodore.com (Peter Hjalmarsson Sweden)
Organization: Commodore Sweden

In article <9712@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com> peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany) writes:
>
>In article <1992Sep28.114200.28585@news.uit.no> espensk@stud.cs.uit.no (Espen Skoglund) writes:
> >/Espen (EVEN POORER student)
>Well whiners, I can easily top that: I'M A POOR COMMODORE EMPLOYEE!  NOW!

Well, I am poorer than you. I am just a poor Commodore employee in the
country that is well known to have the worlds highest taxes.

But on the other hand: I may not have any money, but I *am* writing this on
an (almost) A4000...


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From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: REAL FALCON 030 SPECS
Date: 4 Oct 92 12:57:46 PST
Organization: TAP

Quoted from <u894776.718087648@bruny> by u894776@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (James McCoull):

> Please try and keep personal attacks out of news groups.
> [Attack what someone says not the person]

    There's a level of density below which this is not possible.
    Someone says or believes something _because_ they are stupid, not
    because they have been misled or are misinformed. So when you try
    to explain why they are wrong, you're really having to point out
    that they are stupid.

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From: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Palettes and stuff (was Re: Some random thoughts on the A4000)
Date: Sat,  3 Oct 92 18:18:36 +0000
Reply-To: Hans_Bergengren@p1.thulos.bbs.bad.se (Hans Bergengren)
Distribution: world
Organization: THULOS!, STROMSTAD, SWEDEN 
OD-Comment-To: Internet_Gateway


 IG> You're telling me that a video design (e.g. the A4000) that has
 IG> CPU/blitter contention in every mode (with extreme contention in
 IG> 8-bitplane hires) is better than a VRAM design with no contention

The A500-A4000 hasn't got contention in ALL modes. Learn your homework FIRST,
THEN speak!  And VRAM, of course Amiga graphics boards have VRAM, you
can't have 24-bit high resolution with a DRAM design (at least not if you want
to be able to paint to the screen buffer!)
But VRAM is used in almost every PC graphics board as well, and what has that
helped them when the bus slots are as slow as a one-armed man in a wheelchair?
The same thing goes for the Mac's NUBUS thingies. Zorro-III blows even EISA
right out of the water in terms of speed!

 IG> and the mythical "high-end" Amiga chipset is planned to use VRAMs

Of course. It WILL be high-end, and with a 32-MB/sec blitter as well. Yummy!


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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: COMMODORE - HERE'S A CLUE
Keywords: moan, gripe, bitch
Date: 28 Sep 92 03:59:45 GMT
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep27.160139.5505@ifi.uio.no> stigo@ifi.uio.no (Stig Arne Olsen) writes:
> 
> In article <35393@cbmvax.commodore.com>, grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) writes:
> > In article <1992Sep24.231339.8882@clipper.ingr.com> kontos@clipper.ingr.com (Thorne Kontos) writes:
> > > 2) MAINTAIN YOUR USER-BASE. OFFER UPGRADE PATHS to the new high-end 
> > >    machines. If you alienate your user base, new software products
> > >    will become scarcer. There will be no repeat sales to previous
> > >    Amiga owners as they migrate to other platforms due to the
> > >    lack of software necessary to get the job done. HAVEN'T YOU HEARD
> > >    THE MAXIM THAT GOES:
> > > 
> > >                     SATISFY THE CUSTOMER!
> > 
> > Haven't we been fairly consistant about offering various upgrade paths
> > in the past?  Typically these have been in the form of incentive
> > discounts, but they seem fairly popular at the time, eh?
> > 
> 
> I wonder, is these upgrade paths only available in the US? When I bought
> my A500 (it's got a serial # ~2200 from germany so I think
> I was of the first) I sent in a registration card. I got no offer to
> upgrade to Kick1.3. I've yet to see a upgrade offer to any product
> from the company. 
> 
> So is this just C= Norway then? Just how much is C= International
> involved in the companies in each country? 

Commodore has a separate "sales company" for each country with a signifcant
market.  These companies have a good bit of lattitude as far as pricing
advertising and what accessories are bundled with the standard sys.

The US sales company has offered various trade-in or "power up" programs
for major model introductions, but we (in engineering) really aren't in
the know as far as what is happening elsewhere except for some very
general relative pricing information.
From: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A4000
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:59:09 GMT
Reply-To: chrisg@cbmvax.commodore.com (Chris Green)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA

In article <1992Sep25.035628.7505@kas.helios.mn.org> rhealey@kas.helios.mn.org (Rob Healey) writes:
>	4000. All I'm hoping for is that they release a Superkickstart
>	3.0 for the 3000 RSN, I could REALLY use the 800x600 graphics
>	mode for ECS chips and the other speedups in 3.0.

	All that is required for the 800x600 mode in ECS is WorkBench 2.1.
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From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Its a sad sad day...
Date: 30 Sep 92 12:02:34 GMT
Organization: Wright State University

In article <1992Sep28.194150.19317@msi.com>, bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras) writes:
> Jerry Shekhel (jerry@connection.prospect.com) wrote:
> : In article <n0abdt@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
> 
> On some systems, you can upgrade your processer power by adding an Intel
> "Overdrive" chip.  The chip is typically one of the 486DX2 line of chips.
> This probably worked great for 486DX/25 owners who wanted to upgrade to the
> 486DX2/50.  All they had to do is buy a chip, and thier system got much
> faster.
> 
	According to this months Byte the 'Overdrive' chips costs $800.00
	and from my perception of the article, the only people who would
	see any benefit would be those doing math-co intensive work.  On 
	some benchmarks there was no improvement most others a little.

       In contrast, when you buy a cpu card for the amiga you get usually
	greater than ten-fold improvement in performance from the A500 and
	A2000 machines for the same cost.  And many of the boards include
	several megs of memory and a SCSI-II controller to boot.

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From: jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel)
Subject: Re: REAL FALCON 030 SPECS
Organization: Molecular Simulations, Inc.
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Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 20:05:38 GMT
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etxansk@garbo.ericsson.se writes:
>
>I've never heard of this before. Is the Amiga Workbench considered better
>than the GEM desktop by non-biased users?
>

Is a frog's ass watertight?  :-)  YESSS!  I finally got a chance to use that
expression!

Seriously, I think the WB is a hell of a lot better than GEM.  I used to have
an ST, and IMHO, the design of the OS/GUI is horrible.  First of all, the
OS is, for all intents and purposes, MS-DOS/68K.  Second, I really hate the
design of GEM.  It consists of two major parts, AES and VDI, and the worst
thing was that the VDI (graphics) didn't know about the AES (windows).  So if,
for example, you needed to draw a line in a partially obscured window, you'd
need to query the AES for all the visible rectangles of the window, and then
set clipping and draw the line for each rectangle.  I could go on for pages,
but let me just say that GEM is by far the worst window/GUI system I've ever
seen, and it doesn't compare to WB or Microsoft Windows.

>
> Anders Skelander
>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Subject: Re: To all Amigans!!!
Reply-To: jpelkone@vipunen.hut.fi (Janne R M Pelkonen)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:48:42 GMT

In article <runehy.1.717762204@dhhalden.no> runehy@dhhalden.no (RUNE HYLDMO) writes:
>To all the people of Finland. We want SANTA CLAUS back before dawn or else 
>we will get NATO to nuke you off the map.
	
	Well, it didn't take long for the germans to take over Norway
	in WWII. Obviusly things are better now in their army, since
	they can be so offensive ;)

>Greetings from 
>
>Rune Hyldmo

	- Janne (served in Finnish field artillery in 1990 - 1991)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.)
Subject: Re: Way to go Commodore! Yeah...right./Falcon guff
Reply-To: danaf@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:38:23 GMT

In article <1992Sep26.060436.15981@uni-paderborn.de>, laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt) writes:
|> Chris_Millar@lppl.mi.org (Chris Millar) writes:
|> 
|> >Look Greg - I'm NOT quoting!
|> 
|> schnipp..
|> 
|> >Wait a sec - clue me in on somthing - the St isn't a monster seller, but
|> >the Amiga is????  HAHAHAH!  Let's see, 3 million Amiga users, 2.65 million
|> >St users, boy what and edge.
|> 
|> The current number is 4.5 Millions....though i can't believe that Atari
|> has sold 2.65 units..perhaps with the Lynx and PCs together:-B

SINCE WHEN!?!?!? We just hit 3 million in 1990 or 91.... I can't believe 
Commodore has sold 1.5 million machines in that short time...

Maybe 3.5 million. At a stretch.

|> -- 
|> Ralph Schmidt                                            laire@uni-paderborn.de
|> University of Paderborn (Germany)

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From: thwang@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Tommy Hwang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A growing dislike for Amiga
Date: 4 Oct 92 23:26:32 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

In article <HgT5RB2w165w@lakes.trenton.sc.us> mr_scary@lakes.trenton.sc.us (Chris Hurley) writes:
>j2yc@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (EvilEd) writes:
>
>[tons of whining deleted]
>Buying a machine without seeing it based on opinions is pure stupidity
>anyway.  You deserve to be unhappy.  

     Hey! give the guy a break!  I have been to C= dealers and they had been
unable to provide ANY sort of demostrations for an Amiga 3000UXD simply because
they don't have one.  As a result, I did not buy it, but I do find it very
annoying that I can't even see a demostration.  Some people may need a
computer, so they becomes anxious.  I do not think they should be called names
or whatever.
   
                                                             -TKH '92
  
Well, back to reg. prog.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: pss1@kepler.unh.edu (Paul S Secinaro)
Subject: Re: Its a sad sad day...
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 11:58:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct06.070208.23203@rmece49.upr.clu.edu> s64453@rmece49.upr.clu.edu (hernandez machado ricardo) writes:

>   Zero hassle?  BS.  You must buy a clone that supports that, and then the
>upgrade from the company that makes the clone. 

I think he was talking about upgrading the CPU chip only.  Obviously,
these are only available from Intel, so there is no chance for a
vendor (except perhaps IBM) to make the upgrade proprietary.  You
could buy the chip from anyone you wanted to.

>You can't usually upgrade from very different cpu's to say the next
>one, like from a 386 to a 486 or a 486 to a 586.

Intel is supposed to be coming out with a special version of the P5
(586) called the P24T or something like that.  This is literally a
586SX with a 32-bit data bus that you can plug right into a 486
socket.  At least one company (Zeos) is claiming that its motherboards
support the P24T.

Paul
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From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Its a sad sad day...
Date: 5 Oct 92 21:56:31 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans) writes:

>Well, it was a nice idea anyway...

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Sorry for wasting bandwidth... but I gotta say it...

Neat .sign... 

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin
e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
From: gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: COMMODORE - HERE'S A CLUE
Date: 29 Sep 1992 01:07:16 GMT
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4

danaf@bray1a.its.rpi.edu (Frank R. Dana Jr.) writes:
: Ratios are just plain stupid in most applications. It's STILL cheap, and as a
: portion of the entire computer's cost it is inconsequential. You wanna play 
: number games? OK.. If a 68000 A500 costs $400, and a 68020-based A500 would c
: $500, ISN'T it 125% better????? I'd say it's more than TWICE as good!

Wrong again, unfortunately.  If the cost to build the system raised by
$100, the system's cost itself would likely raise by $200-300.

: We were talking about the 1985 Paula chip... definitely yesteryear's technolo

Not even Atari was dumb enough to try and create a custom chip that
did 16-bit audio, the job is much better given to a DSP to handle.

Greg

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From: rws@dstos3.dsto.gov.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What in the heck in an 'Archimedes'??
Date: 28 Sep 92 16:05:09 GMT
Organization: Defence Science and Technology Organisation

In article <1992Sep24.134256.18467@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, gzc@gserv1.dl.ac.uk (G. Coulter,office,extension,homephone) writes:
>>>>>> On 18 Sep 92 02:01:18 GMT, gerald@seas.gwu.edu (Gerald G. Washington) said:
> 
> Gerald> cadwallader@forty2.enet.dec.com () writes:
>>	ARM250 CPU (about 12Mips ?)
>>	16/256 colour graphics
>>	8 stereo pair 8-bit sound
>>	1 mini-expansion slot internally & the usual things outside
>>	1Mb RAM up to 2Mb
>>	RISCOS 3.1
>>	RF modulator
>>
>>All for #499. I must say that although I own an Amiga500+ this looks like
>>a very high-powered competitor!
> 
> Gerald> If that price is anything close to $499, then this machine just
> Gerald> blows the A500+ and A600 out of existence--at least
> Gerald> hardware-wise...
> 
> The Archimedes is a very powerfull machine on the hardware side, and don't
> get me wrong the machine has great potential. But the problem as with so
> many other technically brilliant machines is the software. I have used both
> the Amiga and the Archi on a regular basis, and believe me the s/w on the
> Archi is crap!

Don't beleive him, try one for yourself.  Which pieces of software on the
archimedes is crap?  If by software you mean the operating system, I beg to
differ.  RISC OS is nice and the WIMP is certainly one of the more elegant
available. One example of the power of the RISC OS/ARM combination is that the
archimedes has had outline fonts since 1987 and not only that but these fonts
are anti aliased on screen making for a very nice environment for all things
DTP.

> 
> The Archi is very good with sounds, but to be fair only like an Amiga with
> a large amount of RAM. The other area that the Archi is good in is DTP. On
> the whole the Amiga evan in the basic A500 flavor will rival the Archi, add
> a 68040 and other 3rd party stuff and your light years ahead.


The A500 would rival which archimedes and exactly what would it rival it at?
Even the base Archimedes the A3000 punches out 4.5Mips.

> 
> Gary.

Russell.
From: ralph@bugend.edvina.se (Staffan Vilcans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The A600 uses PCMCIA, here's why...
Date: 6 Oct 92 09:11:15 GMT
Organization: Bugend BBS

wendell@medsys.rn.com (Wendell Dingus) writes:

> Here's a quote from Business Week 9/21/92
> 
> "THE PCMCIA DATA BUS STANDARD for portable computers has been adopted
> by about 250 computer makers worldwide, which could allow future machines
> to use a universal format of plastic data cards to share information and
> add-on peripheral devices.  The versatility of the bus might also help
> PC makers keep their machines smaller and easier to customize."
> 
> This is a 'good' thing.

Here in Sweden a small company called Hotline have developed a 
fax-modem that fits in entirely in the PCMCIA. Not bad, eh?

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From: Marc.A.Echeveste.1@nd.edu (Marc.A.Echeveste.1@nd.edu)
Subject: Low End AGA Machine
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Organization: University of Notre Dame
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 17:14:38 GMT

I have heard many mixed reviews about the A4000, but it seems that AGA is
the wave of the future.  Since my old A500's just about kicked, I'm going
to want a new Amiga, but the A4000 is a bit steep for this struggling
college student.  This may be a dumb question, but is Commodore planning on
coming out with an AGA machine that's a bit less pricey?  I'm sure they
will, but any idea on when this might happen, and possible specs?  


-Marc
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
From: cfury@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Chris Fury)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Conversations with my buddy.
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:13:13 GMT
Organization: Virginia Tech Computer Science Dept, Blacksburg, VA

TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:

>>He also admitted that Windows freezes when is doing a disk access.
>>He just replied "I am waiting for Windows/NT".

>Now THAT'S a conversation stopper. At least Microsoft is consistent;
>no matter what complaint you have against any of their products,
>the answer is always "Just wait for Windows NT".

And keep waiting... and waiting... and waiting.... :)
(little pink bunny walks across the screen beating on a beach ball.)

>TomK@cup.portal.com
>Tom Krotchko

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