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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality cont'd
Message-ID: <90098.170806JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 8 Apr 90 21:08:06 GMT
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In article <1342@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry
Phillips) says:
>It is my sincere wish that the Amiga never becomes another Mac, just
>as it is the sincere wish of many or most Mac proponents that the Mac
>never becomes another Amiga.

Unfortunately, while I agree with this wholeheartedly, I must say I think it
is coming about that both machines are growing uncomfortably similar as time
goes on.

Fact:  The Mac IIfx has duplicated the Amiga's style of using support chips
       for I/O, and other tasks to relieve the CPU of such tedium
Fact:  WB 1.4 is going to have a drawer where you put programs that will be
       run upon startup.  (sound like a Macintosh CDEV to you?  Does to me.)

These are just two examples among many.  The Mac is copying Amiga in hardware,
Amiga is copying Mac in software.

People are munching up the Mac.  Now, I don't know if the above is partially
to do with it or not, but the fact remains that this, and many other campuses
around the country have been sold on Macs, despite their lacking hardware
capabilities and their higher prices.

Will we one day have an entire machine which is a merging of Mac and Amiga?
Well, an "Amigatosh" (sorry, but that name works, even if it is taken) would
not necessarily be all that bad *IF* (very big if) it is done right.  Take
1 look at history, though, and you'll see chances are it won't be.

                                                            Kurt
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