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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (David P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga mentality cont'd
Message-ID: <216@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 9 Apr 90 05:54:25 GMT
References: <1342@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <90098.170806JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
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In article <90098.170806JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>, JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) writes:
|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

Me too...

|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.
|

Is it a crime to borrow a good idea?  IMHO, only if it is also propriety
information...

|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.
|
I doubt sincerely that there will be an "Amigatosh" as you say anytime
in the concievable future.  The design philosiphies of the two machines are
light years apart...  As I said above, I think this is just an example
of good ideas being used by others.  Refreshing, after so long of the Not
Invented Here syndrome.

|                                                             Kurt
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Dave Schaumann
dave@cs.arizona.edu