The Amiga Is A Toy - By Local Government Official...

[B00tDisk]

Did you show him milky tracker, and aweb, and sensi soccer


now if you'll excuse me I need to finish up this visual c project I'm working on for the Exidy Sorcerer

LOOOOOOL

[B00tDisk]

If they do they are idiots, Amiga was a revolutionary state of the art machine (A1000) to a genuine alternative (A4000 on launch day) and now they are all vintage computers. Amiga was never a toy, it was a creative machine or an awesome [when programmed properly] games computer that did some things better than a Megadrive (shit twangy music) pfff (Lotus II is impossible on the SNES) or PC (shit OS that broke at the mere though of multimedia in 1985-1993) and Mac (overpriced single tasking bollox)

This is my potted history of the computing past, feel free to print this out and superglue it to the eyeballs of non-believing Macwankers/Doswankers/Nintendopes

Oh wow, you sure did tell off 21 years ago.  Man I bet 1989 is feelin' the burn from that one.

HEAR THAT, PAST?  YOU SUCK!

[B00tDisk]

DOS Wanker? Mac Wanker or Nintendo loser in the 90s/80s then? LOL

Actually, monkey boy, I owned an A500 from '88 to '92, and an A1200 from '92 to '95.  I had a C128 prior to the 500, a C128 before that, a 64, and a VIC-20 to start it all off.  The only consoles I've owned: Atari 2600, Playstation, and a Wii the wife got at an office raffle.

I occasionally fire up WinUAE (the last time I played Quake 1 was under WinUAE - ran about 60fps in 800x600 with WinUAEgfx driver).

I'm just not terminally addicted to railing at the past for a future that will never be.

[B00tDisk]

SGI and Sun and a bunch of others did 68k based Unix boxes too. My university still had a bunch of Sun boxes with 68020's in them in '94, though at point they were being slowly replaced by MIPS powered SGI's.

Also never heard Cray mentioned as a user. It's not that the CPU would be too slow per se for normal instructions,  but that it's not a vector unit - the entire point of at least Cray's early machines was that they offered extremely wide vector units. As far as I know, Cray only used their own designed CPU's until 1993 when they released a series based on the DEC Alpha.

It's not impossible they might have used 68k CPU's in "support" functions (though I have no idea if they did) such as terminals/operator consoles or to control peripherals or stuff like that (just like some Amiga models had a 6502 derivative on the keyboard, and some Amiga SCSI cards had a Z80 on them...), but certainly not as the main CPU.

SGI's Iris workstations were 68020 powered; but of course that was in 1987 or thereabouts.

Here is a list of models and CPU types; here's a picture of the CPU board.

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Note the full 020 over there to the left.