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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.135543.9711@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <91MAR12.134551@ducvax.auburn.edu> <1991Mar12.224905.4774@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <4239.27de4b9d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 13:55:43 GMT

In article <4239.27de4b9d@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
> I would like to see how an Amiga 1000 would compare to a IIfx!!

On the right, an Amiga 1000 with 512K of internal RAM, 1 meg SOTS.

On the left, Mac IIfx with 5 megabytes.

The crowd goes still. Hands over power switches, the dedicated users stand
prepared to do battle... and THEY'RE ON!

The Amiga 1000 pops up a "workbench?" screen, meanwhile the Mac is booting.

The Amiga user inserts Workbench. Meanwhile the Mac is loading DAs.

The Amiga is up. Double-click on Deluxe Paint II. The Mac is loading INITs.

Up comes the deluxe paint menu, select screen size. Mac is still booting.

The Amiga user needs to format a floppy! Oh no, workbench has vanished!
Ah, tell DPII to give workbench back, and we're back in business. The Amiga
user starts formatting a floppy and goes back to work. The Mac is up. Photon
Paint is booted!

The Mac user needs to format a floppy... no problem. Mac handles that. He
inserts a floppy and it's automatically formatted... now we wait for that
to finish...

The Amiga user saves his finished work on disk. The Mac user is still
formatting that floppy.

It's not the speed of the CPU, it's the speed of the user.

Amiga: 20 chairs, no waiting.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
