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From: mjl@ut-emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info on new low-end Mac
Message-ID: <34547@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jul 90 05:55:26 GMT
References: <1816@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <13128@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Reply-To: mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <13128@yunexus.YorkU.CA> pmcd@yunexus.yorku.ca (Phil McDunnough) writes:
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>Well, as you know that may change. But in any case, I was talking from 
>the point of view of a faculty member, as I still consider the A3000

Yes Phil, let's not forget the direction you are coming from.  Let's
see, you don't actually pay for any of the hardware in your department
out of pocket, do you?  Not the software, either?  Hmm... do you do
any actual _programming_ on any of these machines, or do you just run
high-priced applications?  Are these just rhetorical questions?  :-)

Given your rather, shall I say, "niche" occupation, it may be just a
_bit_ inappropriate to be arguing your case against Amiga 3000's to
the entire world.  To be sure, if I were on the department computer
committee with you, it would make for some "interesting" meetings :-).

I for one am enthralled at the prospect of owning an Amiga 3000
(please ship mine soon, Commodore).  It is _not_ destined for my desk
at work, but rather my home office.  Even so, it will exceed (in some
cases, substantially so) the computing power of many of my colleagues'
desk-top computational resources.  And it will be MINE, ALL MINE!
                                     (hideous laughter in background...)

Cheers,

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