swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000

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The trade is more then fair, perhaps people don't know about it, but it's way more powerful then any Amiga.

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You who'd never seen an SGI working would be astonished by what it can do.

@stopthegop:
Beside being plain rude your wording clearly shows you have no clue about it...

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hamtronix wrote:

Its not about pure power... otherwise dump all old computers.

Indeed, it's not about power, but there are few computers that were able to achieve broadcast video quality, SGI just happens to be one of them.

I had an Amiga, PPC et all, but nowadays being given to choose between one Amiga and a SGI I would chose the former as I'm perfectly satisfied with UAE.

SGI was a legend in all that was video related, and what it has reached cannot be emulated...

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So in your view anyone who hasn't touched an SGI is an idiot? Okaay..

I find it strange when a native speaker doesn't quite get what is written in HIS native language... :roll:

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There's professional software, it is a dedicated machine for the purpose f doing video, not an all round machine who has once sold by the millions.  

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@madcrow:
I reiterate: it was a "low-end graphical workstation" mainly used for video*! :-P


*taking into consideration the quality it achieved and the fact that graphic conception isn't a stank container, it should be noted that it could also be used for many other graphic related works.

Thanx for the link btw

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I would be interested in seeing a quicktime video of what you consider so "astonishing" that the SGI can do. I am sure it was a very capable machine many years ago, but I agree with the rest (at least most of the others) that are here in saying that an Amiga is the better value and more useful.

Amiga is/was a desktop machine which had some professional software/hardware, SGI was just a professional machine. As for usefulness, as I said before I already have one machine which presents all Amiga's usefulness and more, yet doesn't present O2... as such I find it more valuable. That's MY line of thinking.

I will stick with my Amigas and pass on your offer to trade unless you can demonstrate something amazing your SGI can do that I can't accomplish on my A4000 Toaster/Flyer and do it at least two or four times faster on the SGI.

It's about software/hardware, I wasn't talking about OS here, as such I have to say that SGI machines are faster then any Amiga built, and could easily render effects 2 to 4 times faster and render 3D scenes also faster.

What software are you offering on the SGI? Does it come with a monitor, keyboard, mouse? 300mHz and 256mb RAM does not sound like much these days, so you need to sell the idea of trading your SGI in some way to make it sound like a good trade, and I have not seen anything you have written yet to entice anyone here.

I don't have one, but I'm guessing that there's not many Amiga 4000 with 256Mb out there with a 300Mhz CPU nor with a broadcast signal... I might be wrong then :-P

After all everyone is entitled to their own opinion and Amiga users here at A.org will obviously prefer Amigas over most, if not all other choices in computing.

What!?!!? Are you talking to me!? :-P It's like this as much as I enjoy Amiga and it's software it's not as if I could dissociate it from reality. There's things where it excels there's others where it doesn't. For me is about seeing what's good and what it ain't so it can be bettered.

As I understood the trade was about an Vanilla A4000 against an O2, to me I don't see it as unfair, the fact that there are those paying lots of money over a second hand Amiga 4000 has IMO with the fact they acknowledge what it is, and the fact they liked to have one in the past and only now have money to acquire it, where SGI only some would know what it is and yet less what to do with it.

RealTime effects
Horse's mouth

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See how this works? B00tdisk asserts I'm an idiot for making a comment she disagrees with, and orange an 'idiot' by association. Similarly, she states it factually "obvious" that orange has never touched an SGI. If you follow the statements, the implication is clear: That I'm an 'idiot' for saying something she doesn't like and orange is an 'idiot' for defending it. Just as its 'obvious' neither of us has ever touched an SGI. Follow?

Following that path of events one cannot assert that he's calling you idiot by not using a SGI, but for not using a SGI and yet providing such quote.