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In article <15APR199502322939@vms2.tamu.edu>, error@hell wrote:
> Like Hell!  You Europeans (sorry.. I know you are from .AU but I'm just
> overgeneralizing as I often do! hehe)  just love the little 500/1200's
> because all you do is play games (much bigger game player to productivity

This A1200 (lisa.apana.org.au) has been sitting permanently on the internet
since October 1993.

So I think that if there is any 1200 that HASN'T had games useage, it's this
exact one!! Infact, this `little' A1200 has been serving FTP archives for
over 2 years now, and is NFS linked to Linux and FreeBSD Unix boxes. It has
a 68030-50, 10M ram and 960M disk for a reason, and that is NOT games.

> Shheeea!  As if!  I have built 2000 systems that would BLOW AWAY ANY A4000
> or A3000 system, and is used is EXTREMELY high end video production.....

Get a clue! This guy wanted to upgrade his A500, not spend 1 billion
($Aus) dollars on expanding an obsolete A2000. On a dollars spent vs.
performance basis, there is no way he can catch up to an A1200 either expanded
or unexpanded even with the price of cheap Zorro2 stuff here, and
compatibility, I won't even begin there. (He mentioned about games.)

> >ECS graphics are slothful and
> >incompatible, the stock 68000 is practically no faster than an A500 at all.
> BUZZZZZZ...  An A2000 can accept a GVP Combo board which 2 years ago went
> for right at $300!

Read the original post! This guy lives in Australia, I doubt
you can get such card for that price here, and he WANTED to play games and
have AGA compatibility. On top of that he wanted mid-range speed, expansion
wasn't critical (ie: he didn't want to run a BBS on the thing) and if had to
be compatible, preferrably not obsolete and he obviously didn't want to pay
the earth. (Some of these are assumptions from the original post, but they're
reasonable if you read the original posting.)

> >(If you REALLY need a killer machine, get a 486dx4-100 with PCI. No Amiga
> True...  But I owuld wait 6 months until the Pentium 120Mhz have been released
> and well established and drive down the other Pentium prices...  a Pentium 100
> woould BLOW AWAY a 486DX4 100...  PCI is good... very good...

I am actually rather wary of pentiums, but then I have seen what owning one
does to you. (I worked at Digital Equipment Corp. doing contract work replacing
broken Pentiums all day. I wouldn't buy one personally, but that's only my own
experience.)

>  /  Thomas W. Weeks             |          __ Commodore Amiga 500/030 40MHz \
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