In a message of 04-May-99 Andreas Frank wrote:
> Right. But this might change with the 68k-Emulation for the new
> CyberStorm G3/G4 boards.
Yes, all the G3/G4 boards look very interesting. On the other hand - six
months later they might be obsolete because then we get a whole new Amiga.
And still, as longs as AmigaOS is 68k code, then (as far as I remember) the
68k emulation of the G4 would still only be approximately like an 68060.
This sort of just make the G4 board and integrated 060/604e board.
> I had a reason... Dealing a lot with large JPEGs and so on...
That's also a valid reason. With my 060 Voyager is more or less able to
display JPEGs at the same rate that my 56K modem can fetch them. If there
are PPC raytracers this would also be a area where a PPC processor would be
very nice to have to speed up the tracing.
> This is exactly my opinion. No 80286 user would complain that WinNT 4.0
> doesn't run on his system either.
Exactly. One then wonders how that market has persuaded all the users to
upgrade their hardware and software all the time, in contrast to our market
where a lot of the users still are stuck with equipment from the beginning
of this decade.
>> I think it is amazing that people running software on 020/AGA machines
>> which are close to ten years old still expect present software to run as
>> smoothly on their machine as it did ten years ago. Naturally it wont.
>>
>> Are Amiga users the world's poor computer users? In the IBM compatible
>> market people more or less happily buy a new computer every other year -
>> if they don't present software won't run on their machines at a
>> satisfactory speed. Are Amiga users so poor they can't spend some money
>> now and then on upgrading their Amigas? Why can't Amiga users do the
>> same as the users of IBM compatible computers de? Or are Amiga users the
>> Amish people of this age?
> This is just the thing I started to think reading the last few messages on
> this list regarding upgrading.
> Guy, you really think the same way I do.
> :-)
Yes, that's nice. I was afraid that I would get skinned and I probably
still will to some degree :) Dirk is destined to make som objections :)
Uffe Holst
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