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Re: AUX: terminal on Amiga Serial Port

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From: Kiernan Holland
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 1991 17:49
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Well I finally decided to get an amiga 3000. I looked at the PC's for
awhile (especially the Gateway 2000) and thought found that the price of
286's had lowered 1000 dollars in 1.5 years, so the 386/25 EISA based 
machines should reach under 1200 dollars by next year. I think by then 
I would have the money to buy one and then I would have an Amiga 3000
and 386/25 with enough Windows based applications at low-enough price 
to get what I want. XGA is nothing to worry about, you might see some
amiga based graphics cards with the XGA chip inside (uses a technique 
common to most amiga users). The applications cost too much and are 
not as well featured as amiga applications (ofcourse this depends,
I made this judgement upon Autodesk animator which is not as nearly
as goo as most amiga graphics programs). Most PC users figure that 
a blitter is only used for CAD programs, others don't even know 
what they are. There seems to be no such thing as Hardware multi-tasking,
it seems that the multiple 8086 idea behind the 386 and 486 chips
confuse this issue, it may be possible but not much useful at the 
current stage of developement. The equivalent of a Amiga 3000 in the 
INTEL world is a 16Mhz 386 (maybe slower) with a EISA bus, a 34010
based VGA card or XGA card, Windows 3.0, an instruction CACHE, and
a ton of ICON oriented MAC quality applications. Notice that DESQview
is still a choice of MSDOS users, incredibly it is going to be another
2 years before you see anything PC based that has the same features as 
the Amiga 3000. Also consider that most applications on the PC's 
don't use hardly anything to the full extent, like how many 1024X768 VGA
card based PC 386's have you seen running 20 or more programs all supporting
the features of the hardware (chances are nil). I think I know why PC users
look at Amiga's as video game machines, becuase of the sprites (which 
don't have to be re-rendered each time they are moved), the Built-in DAC
which makes wonderful music while you work, the ICONS on the screen that 
improve speed of moving from application to application becuase you can 
pull them out onto the workbench (without seeing any blocky BOBPUT on the 
screen like you see on Windows 3.0), the fact that you can use 
UNIX-like Shells that are text based, actually I don't know why they 
consider Amiga's as video game machines, the last game I bought was 
Legend of the Beast which came out a year ago. I'm actually looking at 
games like Meanstreets on the PC's, I am loking at the PC's the same 
way PC users look at Amiga's. WOW GREAT VIDEO GAMES, HUH. I look 
at Amiga's, WOW GREAT WORKSTATION. 
 
Later... 
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Don't bother the MSDOS users, they still think Amiga's are Atari machines
that were invented in 1985 that could not multi-task, had 3-4 programs
available, and all were video games.
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From: kholland@hydra.unm.edu (Kiernan Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AUX: terminal on Amiga Serial Port
Keywords: serial,terminal
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Date: 18 Feb 91 17:49:42 GMT
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