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From: pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic)
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Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons.  aka Marc Blunders
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In a previous article, BARRETT@owl.ecil.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) says:

>
>   Here is a further reason why many will go with the MAC system.  It
>just plain looks great.  What people see first in any system is not 
>the speed of the SCSI controller or whether or not it has a FPU.  What
>people notice first is the quality of the display, and the A3000 cannot
>touch the MAC in this area.  On the systems at school, a new Finder 
>has been installed that uses 256-color icons.  The resulting display
>looks vastly better than AmigaOS2.0 ever will, with it's 4-color 
>WB.    

How can you fit 256 colors in an icon? That's stupidity and a waste of
memory.


>   BTW, what are you going to run on that A3000 system, besides games
>and multimedia software?  There is nothing available for the Amiga in
>the line of engineering, scientific, and education software. 
>

What do you run on your Amiga Marc? Or do you even have one? Maybe your a
secret weapon straight from Apple Marketing :-).

>
>   The A500 is Commodore's lowest-cost system, and I wanted to show that
>even the A500 cannot stack up against the new MACs in price and performance.
>
Compare the A500 to the Mac Classic and it stacks up well

 
>>	Marc, sometimes you talk and make sense and other times
>>you just complete get caught up in emotions and don't even stop
>>to think.
>>	-- Ethan
>>
>>Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu
>>
>>GorbachevAwards++;
>>free (SovietUnion);
>>IndependentRepublics += 11;
>
>
>                                      -MB-
>
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