Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga competitiveness Message-ID: <90271.190320UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 28 Sep 90 23:03:20 GMT References: <31807@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 17 >In article <31807@nigel.ee.udel.edu> AAW151%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu >(Andy Patrizio) writes: >>There isn't a computer salesman on this planet who would sell a Mac or >>IBM/IBM clone without a hard drive. 40 megs is as standard as memory >>and a motherboard, you don't even think of it as an add-on. True, but in the msdos world, more memory isn't as valuable, since many programs don't take advantage of it and multitasking is an add on. I might be strange, but given the choice between 3MB of memory, FACCII, and 2 floppies on the one hand, and 1MB memory and a 20MB hard disk on the other, I'd take the memory. How much would it cost Commodore to make 3MB the standard on every machine? lee