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jmpor@dynam.adsp.sub.org (Jean-Marc Porchet) writes:
: In article <2gteft$2bg@snuffie.adacel.com.au>, Rayhann Chee writes:
: 
: > 	The Amiga and the PC are like Apples 'n Oranges. You cannot
: > 	compare them * hardware wise anyway :^) * The amiga has a
: > 	fundamentally slower and less powerful CPU because it has its
: > 	custom chips to take care of other business. The x86 PC's 
: > 	need a powerful CPU because it basically takes care of everything
: > 	so... in the end it almost balances out. 
: 
: It's very easy to say "my computer is so diffrent than yours, we can't 
: compare them".
: 
: The CPU in a PC used to do everything a few year back, but this is no 
: longuer the case, now it has also chips to help the main CPU (intelligent
: SCSI chips or SCSI boards with on board CPU, GUI accelerator, etc..).
Seems to me, the PC has a _lot_ to make up, the proc's you name here are
just helpers. The amiga has a diffrent soundchip, gfxchip, and a blitter
to make them cooperate real fast.  
: 
: You have to face the reality and admit that the Amiga as loose it's 
: technology advance.
Hardware isn't everything, as PC producers seem to think ( let's put in 
a twin-486, with 25 megs of RAM, wel that should improve the capabilities a
bit...) The other advantages of the amiga are the easyness in which it is
programmed, and the great OS. It doesn't matter how big/fast the PC will get in
2 years.. 95% will still use MS-DOS as it's OS, so it's slow (a friend of mine
uses OS2, and his DOS emulator is twice as fast as the actual DOS) and uses
only 640 Kb RAM at a time. Furthermore, the standarisation of the amiga isn't
a bad thing aswell. If you program something, you know what hardware the
user has, so you can program more efficiently.
: 
: Jean-Marc
: 
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: PS : forgive my bad English, I'm still trying to learn it
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Greetz...
 
  -Arno
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