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In article <48fvje$8ip@nntp.interaccess.com>, bjp@psycfrnd.interaccess.com
(J. Poag) writes:

>                     * * *  Point to the REAL dinosaur: * * *
>
>
>
>	A) A Standard PC today, 1995.    B) A Standard Amiga from 10 years
ago:
>
>	 Can only use 8.3 filenames.       30 charecter filenames, with
the 
>         Considers a little block          ability to tag on even longer
file
>         you can scoot around a 80x25      comments. Fully pre-emptively 
>         screen to be a "mouse pointer"    multitasking, 32-bit pure,
built
>	 The only computer left in the     around a mainframe OS.
Completely
>	 world which BEEPS like an         firmware upgradable GUI.
Includes
>         Apple ][ from 1979. The only      a sophisticated array of
custom
>         computer left in existance        chips which alleviate the CPU
from
>         which has a seperate "Text"       tasks such as graphics
handling,
>         and "Graphics" mode..MS-DOS,      sound output and control, I/O,
>         the backbone of almost all        hard disk & floppy access,
etc.
>         PCs, a cryptic, horribly          ~21 Khz 4-channel digital
stereo 
>         outmoded and obsolete,            sound, not cheezy FM or
wavetable 
>         limited, user-hostile command     synthesis common to antique 
>         interface from the 1970's.        computers like the Atari ST,
>         just like the Atari 800XL,        Apple ][gs, and Commodre 64. A
>         Apple ][, and Commodore 64!       fast, responsive GUI with low
>         The only computer on the          memory overhead, capable of
>         market which can only read        performing heavy multitasking
>         its own-format disks--nobody      within comparably small
amounts
>         elses. A 133 Mhz Pentium with     of RAM due to a huge,
standardozed
>         32 MB of RAM still flickers       array of firmware libraries.
>         the mousepointer when moving.     AmigaDOS applications are
fast,
>         Considers "color graphics"        tightly coded, and
standardized
>         to be an expansion option.        in their presentation. Amiga
>         Considers anything beyond a       programmers need not "reinvent
>         1-bit internal squaker to be      the wheel" in their code, for
>         an "advanced sound board"..       such tasks as graphics
redraws,
>         Considers stereo sound a luxury.  file requester windows, etc, 
>         No widespread firmware support.   which keeps executable file
size
>         A whopping 64K ROM! Considers     at small, as opposed to fat,
slow,
>         a mouse to be an expansion        bloated applications found on
the
>         option as well. Has to be hacked  PC. The Amiga's ROM in 1985
was
>         and kludged into using large      256K--Over 4X as large as PC
ROM's
>         hard disks. Never inteded to      are today. Current Amiga ROM's
are
>         even use color graphics. Never    16 times as large. Can read PC
and
>         inteded to use a mouse. Never     Macintosh formatted disks, as
well
>         designed to handle stereo sound,  as its own format (AmigaDOS,
880K)
>         let alone anything beyond a tiny  Mice are standard equiptment,
as
>         internal beeper. The best PC's    is sprite/blitter hardware
which 
>         out on the market still cannot    allows anything from
mousepointers
>         display animations smoothly,      to entire SCREENS of graphics
to 
>         (Let alone ones with SOUND!)      be moved rapidly and smoothly.
>         without looking like cartoon      Due to the nature of the
Amiga's
>         flipbooks, even with MPEG,        custom chips and internal
design,
>         even when played directly out     intermixing sound with
animation
>         of RAM, even when spooled off     is effortless, simple, and
100%
>         a hard disk.                      glitch-free. 
>
>
>It may