Absolutely that why I always saviour that victory. At the time we had a 8086 (Amstrad PC 1640) with a whopping 640 k of memory (up from the Amstrad PC 1521). Clock speed of something like 12 MHz, a 20mb hard drive and mum splashed out for a EGA colour screen. We where the envy of everyone who had a 8mhz IBM XT with green screen and two floppy drives (one for the os, one for data). Those where the PC speaker days so a year or so later my brother and I spend lots of our hard earned pocket money on importing the first model sound blaster (cost aprox $500).
I don't think it was branding and marketing that won that battel though. Open platforms against closed propitiatory systems. Guy -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert martin Sent: Thursday, 23 March 2006 10:34 a.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] You say potatoe I say.... Im impressed. I would have probably picked the Amiga. Circa 1987 Amiga - 8mhz 16bit CPU, GUI, Multitasking, sound, Multicolor highish res graphics, heaps of games, some business apps , somewhat pretty PC - somewhere between 4mhz 8bit? CPU and 12mhz crippled 16bit CPU, DOS, HDD, heaps of business apps, expensive, ugly If you just looked at the products it seems inevitable that the Amiga would win. Amazing what branding and marketing can do. Rob Martin Software Engineer phone +64 03 377 0495 fax +64 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com Wild Software Ltd CONFIDENTIALITY: This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorised disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email from your system. _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
