From: jasonb@cs.uwa.oz.au (Jason S Birch)
Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:00:37 GMT

In <1992Nov9.195020.26930@cs.olemiss.edu> skip@cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>>> In article <1992Nov8.220520.6234@gw.wmich.edu> x90wardell@gw.wmich.edu writes:
>>>>	I used to have an Amiga and when I went to a PC I vowed to
>>>>make sure it did mroe than my Amiga did and it does.  My PC blows
>>>>away any Amiga I have ever seen in terms of graphics, sound, animation
>>>>and multitasking.  Hence, OS/2, 16 megs of memory, 24 bit coprocessed
>>>>graphics, an Sound Blaster Pro.
>>>>	By the way, never had a problem with it since I bought it (2 years
>>>>ago).
[...]
>Your system sounds okay, but the one I use for development at work blows
>it away: 486-50DX, 16M RAM, SoundBlaster Pro, Ethernet Board, ET4000 SVGA
>board with 24bit DAC, 1280x1024 max res, up to 65k colors in 800x600 and
>24bit truecolor in 640x480, 2 245M 12.5ms drives, plus an assortment of
>software that we actually paid for.  The price for everthing is now over
>$4000 and it is nice as far as Clones go, but I wouldn't want one for my
>personal machine.

ALRIGHT!!! Let's start a "my-clone-which-I-hate-blows-away-yours-anyday"
war! I have a machine here at uni the same as Skip's except it only has
one 245M harddrive, and another 33MHz 486 EISA machine with mostly the
same except no sound card but with 64Megs of RAM. We've got heaps of the
latest software (naturally we paid for it, and the subsequent upgrades
which seem never-ending but do little except fix bugs in the previous
releases). The most fun I've had on them, though, was installing Linux
on the 486-50DX. The only other things they get used for is tetris under
DOS and minesweeper under Windows 3.1, and occasionally writing up
papers using Word for Windows 2.0. We use the Sun's for pretty much
everything else. Oh well...

>Hell, my A3000 does everything as well or better than the Clone does except
>for raw CPU power and color depth.  I am expecting an A4000 in the next day
>or so and have little doubt that it will blow any Clone away.  Stay tuned
>for a post of benchmarks and general impressions of the two.  Am I biased?
>Maybe, but I spend as much or more time using the Clone and feel that I am
>as qualified as anyone to compare the two.

Please do! My project involves animation, so if you can show the A4000
is worthwhile I might be able to convince my supervisor to buy one :). I
can dream, can't I?

>>>>						-Brad

>Skip Sauls, Amiga Advocate
>skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu
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