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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore, Amiga, Apple, and MAC
Message-ID: <5463@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 06:06:25 GMT
References: <15003@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <15003@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>FLAME ON!!!!!
>
>   Once again, Commodore has let Apple slip ahead of them in the
>area of technological innovation.  Had Commodore released (or at
>least publicly shown) their video card, developed by the University...

1.  The 2FX is vaporware in that it will not ship for months.

2.  Apple will not be able to sell a whole lot of them at the quoted price.

3.  Apple will be struggling to compete against Windows 3.0, etc, as the
    PC is closing the gap in graphical user interfaces 

The Amiga may have some of the same struggle on 3, but as even the $550 A500
has a realtime preemptive exec, shared libraries and a rabid following of
talented hackers who are intent on making use of that stuff.  I am still
hopeful.  Further, Macs are expensive.  Amigas are not.

Further, Macs crash and burn.  Mac people don't like to talk about it, but
the ones I know have a lot of mystery crashes.  Plus, small sample size
here, but they tend to catch fire (because of no fan, perhaps?).  A buddy 
of mine has shelled $180 four times in the last three years to replace his
digital board (can't really call it a motherboard 'cause there're no slots
on the affordable ones, right?) after his analog board smoked and fried it.
Another guy I just met paid $180, too, for the same reason.  Ask around.

And after Apple screwed everyone who bought Apple Threes, then screwed
everyone who bought Lisas, then screwed everyone who bought 128K Macs, then 
sued Microsoft, etc, etc, you're not going to get me or a lot of other hackers
(yes, I fancy myself one) near one, other than to projectile vomit at how slow
the 68000-based ones are at window manipulation and how hard they are to
program.
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