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> Gary Jones: "If its not a PC, NASA gives us a lot of grief when we try to buy anything to go with the Amigas. They want us to buy PCs and run Windows 95 and N
by tarkin2 5y ago
> Gary Jones: "If its not a PC, NASA gives us a lot of grief when we try to buy anything to go with the Amigas. They want us to buy PCs and run Windows 95 and NT. We keep trying to tell them its not fast enough so they tell us to buy DEC Alphas. We tell them its too expensive. They don't like the Amiga; it doesn't cost enough."
So even NASA has these problems!
The article makes me more interested in learning about the Amiga platform vis-a-vis the PC. Any tips?
- rbanffy 5y agoYou can get a fairly extensive coverage for the launch from BYTE magazine from archive.org. The Amiga 1000 is described extensively. A similar in-depth analysis was done for the 2000 and the PC bridgeboard. There were also lots of Amiga-specific magazines, but they lack the perspective of general magazines, which is useful when first approaching a new platform.
- anthk 5y agoOld but gold: http://www.upv.es/amiga/ http://www.upv.es/amiga/ EDIT: just in Spanish and French, but Deepl may be able to translate this right.
- spullara 5y agoMaybe they moved to the Amiga 2000? Not only does the Amiga 2000 include five Zorro II card slots, the motherboard also has four PC ISA slots, two of which are inline with Zorro II slots for use with the A2088 bridgeboard, which adds IBM PC XT compatibility to the A2000.