From: worc0223@sable.ox.ac.uk (Ben Hutchings) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: quit whining about amiga Date: 24 Sep 1997 01:41:57 GMT Organization: Not organised Lines: 31 Message-ID: <609r55$pt2$1@news.ox.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk Path: 195.95.96.10!news.unisource.be!planetinternet.be!newsgate.unisource.nl!surfnet.nl!howland.erols.net!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!server3.netnews.ja.net!news.ox.ac.uk!sable.ox.ac.uk!worc0223 In article , Randy Vice wrote: >On Tue 23-Sep-1997 1:07a, perty@oden.se wrote: >p> > 64-bit gfx cards is not top end in the PC world, it covers a wide range >p> > nowadays, from el cheapo to fairly powerful. >p> > A 200 MHz 604 is a fast CPU, but what software are you going to use? >p> > The list of PPC Amiga programs where not that large last I looked... >p> > >p> > -- >p> > -Erik Lundevall http://www.algonet.se/~erikl/ > >p> You will probobly have an option to run PowerMacs with Fusion, you >p> could probobly run P-Os. And I'm rather sure of that the more users >p> buying PPC Cards the more software comming.. It's like the 1.3->2.0 >p> upgrade..... > >p> (Probobly doesn't probobly spells probobly.. or? :-) > >Perhaps sales might not be too good now since Petro's pretty uninterested in >P5's PUcards nor the A\vaporBox. I have to say I'm not sure what to think of Petro's speech. I haven't yet seen a complete transcript, but what I have heard of it sounds very different from the apparent policy of Amiga Inc. (For a few clues on this, go to and check out the latest report in "NewsHound".) I wonder whether Petro is really in touch with reality at the moment. -- Ben Hutchings, compsci&mathmo | ICOAmiga http://www.lapcopaintball.com/icoa/ email/finger m95bwh@ecs.ox.ac.uk | homepage http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223/ This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't. - Hofstadter