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Every once in a while, you may have noticed, Byte decides to give us Amiga
users a fair deal and actually review major new releases/upgrades to the Amiga
line of workstations and user-level machines..In this case, the Amiga 4000.



What the industry is now faced with, is a machine that can run full-screen
animations (read: NOT miniature window-sized movies) at a full 30 frames per
second, using 262,144 colors simultaneously, which puts image quality
indiscernable from full 24-bit graphics. Ontop of that, it has an '040 under
the hood for some pretty beefy horsepower for whatever else interests you,
everything from DTP to 3-D modeling..A bus architecture faster than the
Macintosh Quadra's NuBus, and EISA, and slick NeXT'ish user interface, and a
high-speed  multitasking OS driving the whole thing have been the trademarks of
the Amiga line since day one.


All the bragging aside, im curious as to how the MSDOS community views this
machine. Whats your reaction to it? Being an ex-MSDOS user myself, I can
identify with the pretty inaccurate assumption of "Amigas are game machines" 
response, primarrily because I once believed that statement was true..So for
those of you who still think this way, ill ask you to refrain from commenting..
the last thing I want to have here is another Amiga vs MSDOS flame war. What id
primarrily like to hear is the reaction from those of you who consider
yourselves "wise" as to having experience with platforms other than your own.


As an Amiga user myself, the A4000 (and more specifically, the third
[Bgeneration Amiga chipset its built around) represent a fairly substantial
leap forward in the state of our platform, finally giving the Mac / Unix and
especially MSDOS communities something to think about..

Again, I should stress that this post is NOT intended to begin an MSDOS vs
Amiga flamewar.. Id just like to hear some comments from the other side of the
table. :)





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| Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us | Amiga 2000HD |
|   Computer Graphics Artist   | Plainfeild, Illinois, USA |              |
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