It was a short while since Ian Greenway mentioned...
> I'm not making issue of this just to be annoying (plus its off-topic
> now, so I'll give it up...) its just that emulation is one of the only
> ways the new Amiga will sell anything. Thats right, *anything*. Nobody
> will buy a computer which has no software when they have perfectly
> adequate machines now. BUT if a decent emulation is made for existing
> software it might just persuade people to buy the things until real
> programs comes out. At that, I can't see PC users going for it.. :(
Exactly how I see it too. A WINE style project must be adopted by
Amiga Inc. in order to pull the punters over to their side. This
iswhat Linux is hoping on too...
> > arguments sake), this would be fast 040 speeds, or more...which would be
> > faster than what most Amiga users have now ;)
>
> Hmmm.. Maybe. For those who have a faster machine its not very
> promising.
Has an 060@66Mhz been achieved on Pentium yet? - What sort of PC kit
would I need to get this?
> Ok, poor choice of phrase... I wasn't referring to the speed of the
> machine relative to another type of computer, I was referring to the
> way that the new version of the software *requires* a new fast machine
> to give the same productivity throughput as the old. Rather than
> having the new hardware blow your socks off, its simply there because
> its required before the software is useful.
>
> Anyway, it might have huge clock speeds, lots of ram, 100MHz
> backplane, AGP, etc etc, but when windows gets into its "I'm gonna
> swap everything to the harddisk" mode you have about 1Kb/sec memory
> access speed and it all goes down the pan.. :-) And I've seen that
> happen regularly on 64Mb+ machines. :-/
yup! But when PC users are on their machine it hardly happens to
them? As soon as I have a fiddle with 'em they start swapping all the
time.
Dinky do,
Mike C.
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