91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, David) (04/14/90)
I received the letter I am responding to in my mail. It looks like it was posted to c.s.a. as well, so I am posting my response. This is no flame, tho it is about IIfx vs Amiga :) ------------ >From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) >Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 12:04:55 PDT >Organization: Objects-R-Us, Apple Computer, Inc. >In article <16126@snow-white.udel.EDU> 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu (Bicking, >David) writes: >> 1. "It is the first personal computer to have two additional >> processors" >Perhaps this is referring to 2 general purpose processors, rather than >just custom chips. The distinction was not made, nor should it (IMHO) since both are coprossessor systems, and both work "so that that screaming 680x0 chip isn't slowed down by the more mundane tasks of computer housekeeping" as the add proclaims. Yours does I/O, ours does graphics and sound. >> price I heard for it was about $13,000. The amiga delivers much of this >For 13K you can get a system with a 2 page gray scale monitor, 80Mb hard >disk, and 4Mb of RAM. What does a $4K Amiga provide? Unfortunately, I haven't all the $$ values to quote from for exact info, someone else could undoubtedly supply them. For a 2000 you pay $1,899. For a GVP 68030, 33 Mhz, with 40MB quantum SCSI retails about $1,499. Last I heard (quite a while ago) the 4M 32 bit 80ns "nibble mode DRAMs" using burst mode runs for $2,000 (I suspect it's cheaper by now). That system, is approximately comparable to the MAC IIfx (I know, I haven't forgotten the 24bit board, nor the 32K static ram cache) and costs $5,398. Add the Multi-sync monitor for about $600. The first 2 prices are retail (last I saw) while the rest are best guess on my part. There are products out there for the amiga that allow for 24-bit color, though not on the Amiga screens, and I'm still hoping rumors of a C= board arriving with the A3000 are valid (or better yet, a 32-bit board). I don't have the technical know-how to say the following with impunity, but someone on the net said it: The burst mode on the GVP card makes up for the lack of a 32K static ram cache on the IIfx. Is this true? Why or why not? >> 3. (concerning A/UX) "...Yet A/UX meets all the POSIX compliance >> standards demanded by government and large corporations." >Absolutely true. >> turned down the Mac and a/ux due to NON-compliance to their standards. >That was in regards to one particular contract. And in fact the GAO >simply recommended that he Air Force reevaluate the contract. The Air >Force hasn't cancelled the contract, and there is every indication that >they won't do so. (For example, they have already taken delivery on soem >equipment.) Ok. I mis-understood the article. Sorry :) >> slots, backward compatability). I'd like a FULL set of statistics on >> the IIfx >What would you like to know? Just about everything, actually. Could you send me a description? You know, the ones you send to dealers so they can sell them better. My address is in my sig. >Larry Rosenstein, Apple Computer, Inc. >Object Specialist I've been seeing lots of Apple people here on C.S.A. What is this, an invasion? :) Seriously, tho. I would like to know how I can receive a feed from comp.sys.mac and comp.sys.atari.st What I get of C.S.A. I get through a BITNET distribution from maine. We apparently don't get newsgroup feeds here at all (rn and all that stuff is foreign to me), so if someone could tell me how to receieve stuff from these digests (and send to them), please e-mail me, since I don't think I get ALL the c.s.a. stuff either. >Internet: lsr@Apple.com UUCP: {nsc, sun}!apple!lsr >AppleLink: Rosenstein1 -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=- "I don't want to start any Blasphemous Rumors, but I think that God's got a sick sense of humor and when I die I expect to find him laughing" -Depeche Mode Dave Bicking Single Tasking????? Just say NO!!!! Union College Box 152 91_bickingd@union.bitnet // Schenectady, NY 12308 91_bickingd@gar.union.edu \X/ Amiga -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-