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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: New MAC systems.
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Date: 15 Oct 90 23:28:17 GMT
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In article <33530@nigel.ee.udel.edu> WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>               AMIGA: Yesterday's Technology, FOREVER!!!
>                                 -MB-

Before everybody starts flaming the statement, without reading the rest of
the article, let's try to establish some facts.

	1) The Amiga's graphics have not measurably improved in five years.

	2) That is not the sole measure of a computer.

The A3000 has what may be the best designed internal bus architecture, but
in the PC world, you don't sell computers that way.  [Alas]

IMNSHO, Commodore should have developed a 1024x768 non-interlaced, 256 color
*STANDARD* display last year -- but there are serious operating system
problems to be dealt with.  Let us hope that Andy Finkel's posting about
job positions indicates the future direction our OS and hardware will take.

And release that Lowell board, for crying out loud!

[Some strategic price cuts in about a month wouldn't hurt either.]
*IF* Commodore has not been working on new graphics chips, then we will be
in trouble.  But it's no use yelling about something that may or may not
happen, it is far more productive to suggest what your
David Navas                                   navas@sim.berkeley.edu
"Excuse my ignorance, but I've been run over by my train of thought."  -me