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From: kudla@jec313.its.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla)
Subject: Re: MegaMac
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Date: 6 Jun 91 03:10:55 GMT
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PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu (Andy Patrizio) writes:
>lately.. People sell 50Mhz MacIIFX repackages with 128MBytes of RAM
>(using 16 MB simms.) Show me an Amiga that can currently be expanded
>to 128Megs of RAM.

>Knowing Apple products, that Mac will probably cost more than a fully-
>loaded Lexus LS400, and won't be anywhere near as well built.

I'm sure these are just as third party as the Amiga 50MHz board(s).
Let's see.... the fx sells for ~10K on average, a 16M SIMM is about
800 (A Mac friend of mine just got 32M for his fx in 4M SIMMs for 40
bucks a meg, let's assume 16M ones are more expensive) and the 50MHz
board for the Amiga costs about 3 grand, right?  So maybe for the fx
it'll be another six grand.  10K + 6K accelerator + 7K for the RAM.
23 grand for a *way* powerful system.

>Secondly, what in the world do you need 128 Meg of RAM for? Even UNIX doesn't
>suck up that much memory.

"What in the world would you want more than 4K for??"
"Why in the world would a program need to access more than 640K
 continuously??"
"Why should we give you more than 512K of CHIP ram?? Most users won't
 even have that much RAM total!"

Apart from the fact that it's a stupid argument, consider this:
24-bitplane graphic manipulations.  I don't know about 128M, but my
friend is finding his 8M to be way too cramped and 32M will eventually
be too small too.  Also: full-motion video.  128M makes a hell of a
good buffer to ensure realtime performance....

>It sounds to me like a computer version of the Spruce Goose. Big,
>ugly, awkward and useless.

Sounds more like your sour grapes to me.  I bet when the first
screamin' Amiga system with half a gig of RAM becomes available,
you'll be the first one to drool over it....
-- 
Robert Jude Kudla - Any email sent me becomes my nonexclusive property.
                                   
You cannot go against nature, because when you do
Going 'gainst nature is part of nature too....
