Confessions of a CSPPC Owner

[amiga-penn-wchester]

I had a blizzPPC-060@50/PPC@240 in the day, and with a graphics card in a tower, it did feel screaming fast.

Agreed that the PPC side was frustrating because you had to search for bits and pieces of drivers and such to make something like ImageFX use PPC handlers and the like.  

I was always more of a command line person on the amiga, and if you did take the time to compile binaries for PPC for your often used tools like lha, zip, and several other cmds, you could achieve a very responsive and productive system with it.

It was a shame that the hybrid system couldn't have been unified a little better.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

Also, I held my system at 3.1 during that time even though 3.5 was coming out simply because I wanted it to remain as fast as it could be. Besides many patches and enhancements were available for 3.1.  In retrospect, my overall view of that setup of 3.1 + 060/PPC was that it was just a "no bullshxt" system that truly did nearly everything a mid range PC could do at the time.  True it was not state-of-the-art fast, but it allowed me to seriously use an amiga for real work a little longer.  

Today, for me, Amigas are just for fun and I don't kid myself that (even the new incarnations) can be used for serious work anymore... (that's my view, my opinion, yours may differ).