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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Dagon on February 05, 2006, 06:26:55 AM
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lol this new thread button isnt very visible... it's been a while since the last time I created a thread of my own here. Wayne you should put it elsewhere... it should be an indipendent visible button not a part of a bar as it is now.
Anywayz... I think there is an error (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_International) in wikipedia. It says:
But well into the early 1990s, CBM continued selling Amigas with 7–14 MHz 68000-family CPUs, when PCs with 33–100 MHz 486's, high-color graphics cards and SoundBlaster (or compatible) sound cards offered comparable, and eventually higher, performance at very competitive prices. Software developers by and large became focused primarily, if not exclusively, on the PC market.
The Amiga hardware did not begin to reach feature parity with PCs until the release of the A4000 and A1200 computers in late 1992, which featured an improved graphics chipset, the AGA. By this point, both the IBM PC and Apple Macintosh had several times the market share of the Amiga platform.
In 1990 was released A3000 which had 68030@25Mhz the PCes on the other hand they didnt have 486 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80486) with 100Mhz, instead they had 33Mhz (later came the dx2 with 66Mhz).
If I'm not mistaken we also had graphics cards (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showcat.cgi?CATID=17) at that period (24bit with 1280x1024?)
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I think a lot of people were not highly aware of amiga graphics cards. I think the built in graphics capabilities received much more attention in the non amigan community.
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Well fix it. That's the beauty of a wiki, anyone can contribute/edit.
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Yes, pretty misleading alltogether. While CBM sold 14 MHz clocked A1200 to their very end (and after that ;-)) as low end, higher clocked i486 were only becoming available/common at the end of CBM. The i486DX2/66 was introduced in March '92, the i486DX4/100 in March '94, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors#80486DX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors#80486DX) which matches my memory.
Faster 486s were pretty expensive when CBM still existed, so slow 486s and fast 386s were more common in the early 90s - and those compared not too well against similarly priced Amigas...