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From: klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Blues
Message-ID: <1037@flash.UUCP>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:03:41 GMT
References: <20260001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Reply-To: klg@flash.UUCP (Kevin L. Gross)
Organization: Summation Inc, Kirkland WA
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In article <20260001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> guest@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Guest) writes:
>The Amiga is a VERY nice machine.  It's capabilities with graphics and 
>sound allow the machine great versitility and user-friendliness in a 
>UNIX-style environment.  Why are there no notes about this very very very
>good machine?


Because IMHO, the people that make the Amiga lie through their teeth when
it comes to supporting the hardware and living up to their claims of
expandability. Especially, but probably not limited to, the A1000.

I'm not real crazy about buying any more Amiga equipment so that I can
be told things like:

	1. We don't support that hardware any more.
	2. We don't support that software any more.
	3. Our software doesn't have to be forward compatible.
	4. Our software doesn't have to be backward compatible.
	5. You have to reboot in order to run our program.
	6. Our hardware has to be the last on the expansion slot.
	7. Normally, memory chips are $100/MB, but for you, an Amiga
	   owner, its $700-800 to upgrade from 1MB to 2MB RAM.
	8. Guru crashes are the fault of the Amiga, they are caused by
	   vendors who don't write software the way Commodore wants.

I love what the Amiga does. I hate what the Amiga does.
-- 
-Kevin L. Gross          Systems Mgr.           klg@Summation.WA.COM
 As long as the systems are up, my employers don't care what I think

"Obviously, I am dealing with inferior mentalities."   -  Daffy Duck