swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000

[madcrow]

The SGI's are decent boxes (and they look pretty friggin sexy), but I suspect that a 4000 with an 060/PPC combo accelerator, PCI busboard and Voodoo3 RTG is the better system.

[madcrow]

Actually, the O2 was NOT a decicated video box. It had some use in the video production market, but it's INTENDED use was as a low-end graphical workstation to muscle in a bit on Sun's turf... Of course it failed, but that's life.

The only Unix hardware I would trade an Amiga for would be NeXT hardware (prerable a NeXTStation Turbo Color)

Link to the system in question: http://lowendmac.com/next/nscturbo.html

[madcrow]

murple wrote:
If you don't like SGIs and don't want one, don't trade for it. There's no reason to sit here like Grumpy Old Man {bleep}ing about how awesome the past was and how everything else sucks.

Nobody's said that SGI sucks, they've just said that they like the Amiga better. SGIs happen to look cool and have cool software available. Sadly said software is VERY expensive, whereas the Amiga has loads of excellent software available for cheap/free... I also suspect that an 060+PPC Amiga with lots of RAM and a Voodoo3 would wipe the floor (performance-wise) against a low-end SGI, but even that may not be true as the ammount of PowerPC software for the Amiga is so low.