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From: rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
Message-ID: <52132.656095368@atronx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Oct 90 15:42:48 GMT
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In-Reply-To: WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)

In a message posted on 16 Oct 90 07:47:40 GMT,
WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) wrote:
MB>video from day one.  "What are we going to do about it?"  Go out of
MB>business, I guess.
MB>
MB>                               -MB-

Question:  If you hate the Amiga so much, and believe that the Mac is better
'FOR YOU', then please buy a Mac, and get out of this newsgroup so the rest
of us can go about OUR buisiness.  All you have said is Opinion, and opinion
that I can tell you that I myself totally dis-agree with.

  A MAC 'should be' half the price of an Amiga with comparable Hardware. WHY?
Operating system, in my mind, is half of a computer -- I've programmed a MAC -
It is TOO restricting, and does not provide the tools that I need.

  I guess I'm not your Regular Amiga user, though.  I am right now sitting
here on my Amiga 3000, on a 1084 Monitor (Ya, I'm in 640*256 resolution because
I have no need for more), and still don't know if the A3000 generates audio
as I've never plugged my sterio into it.  I'm a programmer, and I do a lot of
work with Networking utilities (Hold and Forward networks like UUCP/Fidonet).
For what *I* do, the Amiga is the best that I can get.
(P.S. Do you know anything about what DMA is, do you know what CHIP Vs FAST
bus means as far as speed?  Have you looked into the Zoro III specs? Do you
ALWAYS just look at the surface, and have no concepts of what is going on
inside?)


  Commodore may be 'in trouble' with the new machines.  It only proves one
thing though:

   It's not the capabilities of the machine that sell a computer, but a
salesman that sells a computer.

  Commodore does not have to upgrade their machines.  They have to upgrade their
marketing strategies.

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  Opinions expressed in this message are my Own.  My Employer does not even
know what these networks ARE.

  Russell McOrmond   rwm@atronx.UUCP   {fts1,alzabo}!atronx!rwm 
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