Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!laidbak!spl1!ddsw1!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Questions about Amiga future Summary: I've been there. I didn't like it. Message-ID: <2556@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 12 Dec 87 08:50:30 GMT References: <2908@cbmvax.UUCP> <75500003@uiucdcsp> <2813@drivax.UUCP> Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA Lines: 63 In article <2813@drivax.UUCP> holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) writes: > > All this on a PC/AT. But you could do the same on a regular ol' PC, with Too slow. GEM (which is not real slick, thank you) performs poorly with a stock 4.77 Mhz 8088. Oh ? You upgraded to a 10 Mhz V20 ? Hmm, about those 25 Mhz '020 chips.. >Concurrent PC-DOS. Another wiener. >And use all the PC software Perhaps usefull for accounting and mailing lists, but not a lot of animation software, now, is there ? >out there, and hardware, Yes, there are some cheap harddisks, for which we are thankfull. Even more thankfull C= put an AT bus in the 2000, so we can exploit this. Same deal with Apollo 3000's. >and... Get a PC/XT crud >w/EGA Right. How many colors are there between dark red and bright red ? None ? Oh. Darn that digital RGB. >and CDOS. Multitasking and Multi-USER. And it runs >GEM w/multitasking. And for about the same price as an Amiga 2000, you can >get a hard disk, monitor, and a barrage of PD programs you wouldn't believe. Dont believe them all right. I especially like the one in the PC-SIG catalog: "Make desktop slide presentations" What they want you to do is print out a graph, and take a picture of it. Viola you have a computer generated slide. I dont believe it. >It's the best supported hardware in existence. (I thought toilets were) It must be. So many options to choose from. CGA, MDA, MONO, EGA, PGC, plus the plethora of proprietory graphics cards, that each week promise to draw the AutoCAD nozzle faster than last weeks. And then there's PC, XT, AT and Micro channel bus slots. What fun. >- Bruce Nice try. -- Richard J. Sexton INTERNET: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP: {hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!richard "It's too dark to put the keys in my ignition..."