Re: Iigs comparable to Amiga? Pah!

[bob@bob.us]

it's obvious you got a lemon.  don't get me wrong - i love my supercharged
gs w/twgs1.8@16mhz, 8mb ram, 1gb hard drive, ramfast setup, zip drive, cd
player, second sight, fingerprint gsi, audio animator midi, superdrive
1.44 and everything that goes with it but it still can't compare to a
fully dressed a1200.

my a1200 sports a 68060 processor, 512k ram, 10gb hard drive, cd burner,
dvd player, cat weasel 1.44, svga/xvga and i use a mac emulator to run
faster than most macs.  there's a ton of hardware / software at aminet
(do a google) including tcp/ip stacks, ppp, linux ports and hi speed
internet / networking connection stuff. my a1200 came with built-in ide
hard drive, scsi ports and a factory installed pcmcia port.  

like i said, i love my tricked out gs but there just isn't a comparison.

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>   From: Richard Kilpatrick <delorean@NOSPAMbtconnect.com>
>
>I just had the misfortune to re-aquire an Amiga 1200 system.
>
>Good god, these machines are crap. Built like crap, run like crap,
>unreliable, awkward to do simple things on like installing a new HD, and the
>internet is full of emulator rubbish with very little of use for hardware
>people.
>
>I often consider the Amiga to be a Mac rival. I sometimes say that it could,
>with proper development, have been an SGI rival.
>
>But no. It should have been strangled at birth, especially in 600 and 1200
>form. It's not even worthy of comparison to the IIgs.