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Article #6738Re: Comparing the Mac and the Amiga
From: Tim Smith
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 02:23
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1986 02:23
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In article <837@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> ali@navajo.UUCP (Ali Ozer) writes: > >Hmm, Pascal on the Mac is more like Basic on the Amiga than like C on the >Amiga. AmigaBasic is a wonderful language that lets you do truly >neat things with one or two statements. You can trace, open windows, >Beep as much as you like, cut/paste, etc... Uh, excuse me, but Pascal on the Mac does nothing special. It's all just calls to the OS. A C program to do something and a Pascal program to do the same thing both end up being about the same number of lines. >run 300x200 life on the at 20 generations/sec. Amiga definitely wins here. The fastest I have seen life on the Mac is about 450,000 cells/second, while the Amiga seems to do 1,200,000. This whole discussion has gotten silly. Give me any two reasonable machines, and two weeks to play with them, and tell me which machine you want to be better, and I can prove to you that it is. ps: I am glad to finally see an Amiga owner who can say "Mac" rather than "MAC"! -- "I don't want no god on my lawn, just a flower I can help along" Tim Smith USENET: sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim Compuserve: 72257,3706 Delphi or GEnie: mnementh
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!cbmvax!bpa!burdvax!sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim From: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: Comparing the Mac and the Amiga Message-ID: <3604@ism780c.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 22:23:14 EDT Article-I.D.: ism780c.3604 Posted: Wed Sep 17 22:23:14 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 00:17:23 EDT References: <1273@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1274@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <837@navajo.STANFORD.EDU> Reply-To: tim@ism780c.UUCP (Tim Smith) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Santa Monica, CA Lines: 27