Re: Iigs comparable to Amiga? Pah!

[bob@bob.us]

to be totally fair, you would have to compare the stock rom 0 gs to an
amiga 1000 which was a piece of crud that commodore had to revamp greatly.
the serial and parallel ports on the 1000 were reverse gender meaning
non-standard and the pin 5 on the serial port was powered and would fry
normal modems and had to be removed if you didn't use a special amiga 
modem.

the 1000 came with 256k ram like the gs and whereas the gs had an easy
boot from prodos 8, the 1000 required 2 disks to boot - a kickstart disk
and a workbench disk. memory expansion was very difficult in the 1000
whereas the gs could move up to 8mb in a hurry.  most software was
released with the 500 in mind so the 1000 quickly became outdated wheras
the gs was totally backward comptible and thus had the entire 8-bit line 
software list to pull from.

the a1200 (the last amiga) was state of the art compared to the 1000.

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>   From: Kevin <followthelink@bottomofpost.com>
>
>I dont agree.  Take a stock IIgs (orig model) and an A500... the Amiga
>has far better Graphics and Sound.. The operating system (which boots
>off a floppy disk) features a GUI and true premptive multitasking.
>Sure the AMiga was not held back by having to be compativble with the
>Commodore 64, so the designers definetly had more to work with... Im
>not against the IIGs, like I said it is a great machine.  I just dont
>think it is better then the Amiga.