matthey wrote:
The people suffering are using Micro$oft products.
My Amiga 3000T has a 68060 and Voodoo 4 graphics card making it a pretty snappy system. It is fast enough for 90% of what people do with their computers. Software is cheap or free and some of it is very good. I just bought Pagestream 4.1 for less than $30 shipped off e-bay today for example. The Amiga does lack a good web browser or it would be used the most at home instead of my Winblows laptop which I have networked with my Amiga using SMB. The laptop is 3.2 GHz and slows down and has to be defragged about once a month and I don't even install much software on it. Plus it is always trying to do things I don't want it to. It does run some software that only runs on Windows like my software for editing the settings in my '93 Mazda RX-7 ECU (computer), another hobby of mine. The RX-7 engine has no pistons and is really small (80 ci = 1.3 liters) and people make fun of it and say it's outdated technology and unreliable which in a lot of ways it is but I have beaten a 454 ci Chevell SS and a couple of smaller displacement crotch rockets from a roll in it. The handling and breaks are amazing and the 7 is the funnest car I've ever driven. After driving the 7, I wasn't impressed by my uncles Porsche 996 (basically a newer 911) which I drove. It felt stiff and heavy even though it's about as fast, handles well, and has much bigger breaks (but longer stopping distance) compared to my 7. The Amiga is the same way. It's really good at some things when most just look for the most speed. I will buy the newer PPC Amigas with AmigaOS 4 if they ever come out and I'll use my classic Amiga for some things too. Whatever tool is best for the job and fun to use will be my tool of choice.
I'll agree the RX7 was an amazing car in its day (and still a great ride), but the slowest 996 is still 1 second quicker to 60, and likewise will stop some 20-30 feet sooner, also from 60. This is of course assuming both cars in excellent stock condition (naturally aspirated 996). They're close enough though, that in a "real world" contest I think it would mostly be a matter of the better driver. (Actually, it's pretty amazing that a 1993 Japanese car can hold a candle to a modern Porsche.)
The
wankel engine is definitely a fantastic design. Back in the 70s,
Mercedes developed a special test vehicle utilizing the wankel (and later, quite interestingly a 5-cyl turbodiesel), which set a bunch of world records, many of which still stand IIRC.
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