From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 4000/Atari Falcon
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:11:58 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

jerry@connection.prospect.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:

>How much for one of those BridgeBoards?  What's on it, a 286?  If you think
>a BridgeBoard is comparable to having a PC, you're sadly mistaken.

some luck souls might have a 386SX Bridgeboard.  And if they really know
what they are doing, they can desolder the 386SX and replace it with
a Cryix chip.

Now... Jerry... just for the sake of argument  (oops... perhaps I shouldn't
say this...) what can a 486 do that a 386 cant?  

>>>More bullshit .advocacy whining.  Intel-based PC's now have cheap EISA,
>>>blazing fast local-bus video, inexpensive sound cards, and more support than
>>>you could shake an A500 power cord at.
>>
>>All kludged in.  All Intel byte-swapped garbage.  Specialized CPU registers
>>(how many general purpose ones?).  No sound or video-support out of the
>>box.
>>

>Mike, you're full of shit.  No video support out of the box?!  What box?
>Find me a clone vendor that doeesn't sell complete systems.

Take it easy, buddy.  When he said  "video" support, he means real video...
ie, NTSC VHS video (or PAL beta for other folks...).  I put a small presentation/animation from my Amiga onto a video tape (without any special external 
hardware--well... unless you consider a VCR special... :)

alright... it was only in B&W... but hey... that was good enough. :)

>Kludged in?!  You mean, kind of like your built-in flicker-fixer, Mike?
>As for your comments about byte swapping and x86 CPUs -- if you can't
>deal with the fact that there are different CPU architectures out there,
>do yourself a favor and get out of the industry.

the Amiga is designed to sync with a TV and video... that's why it
flickers, buddy.  True, C= should be giving out Flicker-fixers to Amigans
for free... but then, we all know how likely that would be... :)

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Don't get me wrong, Jerry.  I am not saying the Amiga is necessarily better
than an IBM (nor vice versa :)  I like them both, but I couldn't resist to
jump in when you and the other gentleman are clearly misunderstanding 
each other...

Take it easy, buddy.  Many of us bought our Amigas years ago... so we dont 
have those hot-shot gadgets IBM buyers could buy nowadays.  Remember,
at that time the Amiga's competition was a CGA 10Mhz 80286 system... the
choice to many of us was obvious... :)

Yes, yes... IBMs are getting really cheap right now.  Nonetheless, I personally
don't have $2000 to spend on a new computer system... so I wont necessarily
envy those new IBM owners... besides... I like my Amiga.  There isn't 
really anything that I can do on other computer systems which I cant do
on my Amiga.  (Well, I admit there are IBM software which I particularly
like which aren't available for the Amiga--namely Chinese OSes and Chinese
editor... nonetheless, I have a cheap bridgeboard which can handle the
job).  (note: cheap as in quality wise... but hey, it works! :)  

No offense, buddy--just relax ok?  besides, what do you want us Amigans do?
go cry out loud, confess we bought the wrong machine, beg clone dealers to
sell us their machines, put the machines in a temple and worship them?
  :)  :)  :)  :) :) :) :)

Yours Sincerely,
Kelvin

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