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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
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Date: 25 Jul 90 05:58:03 GMT
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Philip McDunnough writes:
>>At its current price, it simply will
>>not sell well. There is not enough software to justify it. 

Karen Lien replies:
>FOr whom?  For the scientific type, those not willing to look into emulators,
>etc. -- that may be so.  For video people its the machine of choice for
>exactly the opposite reason.
>
>What's more interesting is that the machine (from the accounts I've heard)
>are selling as fast as Cmdre can make them.  Which is pretty good for a
>computer that doesn't have its operating system in ROM yet...

And I certainly wouldn't rule out capturing a fair amount of the
scientific computing market.  I for one have already ordered my A3000,
and plan to shift my development of plasma simulation codes to it (it
should be much faster than the Vaxstation I currently use) as well as
for writing papers (using AmigaTeX), graphics display/output, and
animations.  It is true that the MacII has the edge in the number of
high-priced software packages, but the Amiga has the edge in good
inexpensive (or free) software -- which is just as important (or more)
to someone on a limited budget, as most scientists are.

Maurice LeBrun                Institute for Fusion Studies  
mjl@fusion.ph.utexas.edu      University of Texas at Austin