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From: 33014-18@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Eduardo Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA Fading?
Message-ID: <1989Nov14.200000.10321@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 89 20:00:00 GMT
References: <3932@nigel.udel.EDU> <127836@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: 33014-18@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU (Eduardo Horvath)
Organization: San Jose State University
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In article <127836@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <3932@nigel.udel.EDU> WDV91@ccvax.iastate.edu (NetMonster) writes:
>>   The Amiga's main competition -- cheap IBM clones -- have largely
>> caught up to the Amiga in multitasking capability and ease-of-use.  
>
>I agree with your main point but the above statement is pure bullshit. You
>*cannot* buy a PC clone with a '286 and OS/2 with a window based operating
>system for less than the comparably equipped A500. What you can buy is a 
>16 bit machine with a CP/M-80 ripoff but who cares? 
>
>Just to run OS/2  + Presentation Manager you need 6MB of memory. And as
>far as I know there isn't a version of MINIXView or something equivalent
>for MINIX so that is right out. Hell you can't even *run* OS/2 off floppies.
>
>Stick with the "what it needs to get better.." stuff and you will do a 
>lot better. 
>
>--Chuck McManis
>uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis   BIX: cmcmanis  ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM
>These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
>"If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"

	The people these cheap clones are being pushed to wouldn't know a
good computer from a hole in the ground.  They look "user friendly", they
have a larger selection of software, and they're cheaper.  Why buy an Amiga?

	C='s add campaign pushing the A500 is educating these people about
the difference between what an Amiga can do and some of the limitations of
Messy DOS, but it would be easier to convince people who the possibilites..


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