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From: elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Summary: What do Amiga owners want?
Message-ID: <5645@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 27 Sep 88 03:11:41 GMT
References: My previous article in Apple Users group <661@wsccs.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In message <661@wsccs.UUCP>, dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) says:
>fact that Commodore made the Amiga 2000 with an IBM slot as something
>that Amiga users did not want.  I contended that what Amiga owners
>really wanted was a more powerful Amiga machine, ie more colors in
>normal res-modes and higher resolution with NO INTERLACE.  Someone
>replied with a letter that IBM compatibility is a MUST, citing a
>Macintosh magazine as proof.  So what is it Amiga owners?  Do you want a
>more powerful Amiga or IBM compatibility?  

Actually, if you're wanting to do weird off-the-wall applications, IBM
compatibility is almost the only way to do them right now. For
example, image processing -- you can either do PC/AT bus, VME bus, or
Apple Nubus, take your pick, you aren't getting the hardware on the
Amiga bus (mostly because of lack of market -- the medical folks know
only enough about computers to buy name brands, while the industrial
folks are pretty well intrenched in VAX/VME...).

Boy, I sure would rather chomp on 750K of data with a 68020 than with
a 80286 in 8088 emulation....

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