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From: glin@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (George Lin [900116])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga outclassed
Message-ID: <827@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 22 Mar 90 00:53:23 GMT
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Reply-To: glin@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (George Lin [900116])
Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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What's all this "dream-machine" stuff about the Amiga running at 40 MHZ
with zillions of graphics and stuff?????

Commodore still haven't capture the lower end of the PC market or the 
educational market yet.  With the new ECS chips out and WB1.4, the Multi-sync
Monitor is going to hike up the price even more!

Do any of you know how much more hardware (memory+storage) will be required
to run the Amiga version of UNIX?!?!?

With increase performance, the price will also increase.  How many of you
college/high school students have the money to get let's say an Amiga
with a 680xx0 chip and a Multi-sync, a hard drive, 2 additional meg., plus
software?!?!

Nuff of this....

P.S.  I read in Compute! (April issue) today that Commodore showed a machine
based on the Amiga technology w/CD ROM to play games with a price tag of
$600 (ouch!)  I wish they use that research and development and make a 
CD drive for the Amiga instead....  
(which again, will cost more and more $).