On 2009-05-24, Andrew Halliwell <spike1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hmmm... didn't the Amiga run on motorola chips?
>
> And the QL, ST and or course the most famous of the bunch, apple.
>
>> BTW, my first x86, an 80286 with 1MB of memory and a 40MB hard drive
>> cost nearly 3 thousand dollars. Cheap and nasty? Nasty maybe.
>
> Well, they were business machines rather than what many foolish people
> considered toys. I didn't mean cheap to the customer, I meant cheap to make.
> (I don't imagine for one minute a pc of that era cost more than 300 dollars
> to build... they were just vastly inflated)
Hmmmm.. I'm sure they were. No one owned them at the time, apart from a
few geeks.
> I mean, really. Look at the capabilities compared to an amiga or ST of the
> day. 4, 16 or 256 colours compared to millions. Beepy sound compared to a
> full on sound chip (unless you went to the added expense of a sound card).
> The only thing the amiga lacked was the business software that for some
> reason IBM managed to corner the market on.
The Amiga was a far better machine. The x86 was a barebones piece of
crap.
> I think by the 286 era the amiga and ST both had hard drives.
I know the Amiga did.
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Regards,
Gregory.
Gentoo Linux - Penguin Power
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