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Wikipedia & Amiga Hardware History
« on: February 05, 2006, 06:26:55 AM »
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 in wikipedia. It says:
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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 with 100Mhz, instead they had 33Mhz (later came the dx2 with 66Mhz).

If I'm not mistaken we also had graphics cards at that period (24bit with 1280x1024?)
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