From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: A4000 at WOC
Date: 12 Sep 92 15:47:08 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:

>   In a way, the AA chipset is going to become the great equalizer, in favor of
>systems like the Mac and IBM systems which have had 256-color hi-res modes for
>a long time.  Ever since the Mac II and IBM SVGA systems first started coming
>out, people have been complaining about their slowness while stating (falsely)
>that the Amiga was faster.  The real problem all along has been that 640x480x8
>is a hell of a lot of data to move around, and the Amiga did not have any modes
>to use as a comparison against these systems.  Sure, the Amiga seemed faster,
>but only because it's inferior display meant that it was not burdoned with 
>moving lots of data around.

>   But along comes the AA chipset, and we finally get to see how an Amiga 
>performs with 8 bitplanes at 640x480, and we see that it **CRAWLS**.  In fact,

I don't know about you, perhaps you flew to California and flew back 
(you lucky rich kid... :)  Personally, *I* haven't seen it crawls... have
you??? you saw it?  I assumption is that: either you are rich enough to
fly back and forth (fly by night? <grin>)  or you have very very very 
good eye-sight.  either way, I envy you. >:)

>we find that the Workbench is **UNUSABLE** in 256-color mode because it is
>so slow, even though the Mac and IBM systems -- which have been available for
>much longer -- are pokish but still very usable with 256 colors.

**Unusable**?? I thought some guy claimed he was using it for 3 hours...
now how do you explain that, buddy?

>   The odd thing about the AA chipset, then, is that it could easily move
>die-hard Amigaoids to viewing Mac and IBM systems with a little more respect.

that might be true... but I know there's no way we can convince a die-hard
flame-thrower to at least have faith in the Amiga for once...

;) ;) ;) ;)

>>keith

>---
>| Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
>--------------------------------------------------

Whosoever predicted -MB-'s complaint didn't do a good job... :) ;) ;)    

He (-MB-) managed to bash the Amiga in a very unique way.

Ok, ok, I admit this response is kind of mean... but I am a little tired
of the whining...                   

--Kelvin 

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