Comparing 1990's Computing Technology — #16

Post #16 by 3583Bytes

Source Forum	Comparing 1990's Computing Technology — #16
Category	68k
Post Date	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 - 04:12
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/comparing-1990s-computing-technology.323/

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massiverobot said:
The 600 and 1200 came later- as AGA. This was ECS time-frame.

Perhaps a comparison between the A500 (still a 68000) and Classic is more apt. Or as people have suggested the CI and the A3000. But an Amiga 500 MB and a Classic (not Classic2) would still show what I am talking about. Apple was just many generations ahead of CBM. Maybe it's a West Coast vs East Coast thing.

I happen to have a roasted CI here, I'll remove the mb and photo next to the A3000.

I'm well aware of _WHAT_ the Amiga could do in 1990, as compared to the Mac. I worked in a shop that sold them and the Toaster. The OS is a whole other story, and I'm aware of what the AmigaOS was capable of in 1990.

Besides all this, you can look at the composition of the board and see- the A3000 board is more like something you'd see 10 years before, while the Classic2 is nothing like say, a SE board. The A3000 resembles a SE MB.

Amiga 600 came out 8 months after the Classic II. While the Amiga 3000 was 2 years before the Classic II, you are comparing to the wrong generation of Amigas. Also my point about the Amiga performance had to do with the fact that most of that extra functionality was in custom chips, so yes it will take more room.