Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!luth!d87-khd From: d87-khd@sm.luth.se (Karl-Gunnar Hultland) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Some MAC and Amiga Comparisons. aka Marc Blunders Message-ID: <1178@tau.sm.luth.se> Date: 18 Oct 90 09:01:54 GMT References: <33618@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Oct16.181202.19256@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Reply-To: Karl-Gunnar Hultland Organization: University of Lulea, Sweden Lines: 31 UUCP-Path: {uunet,mcvax}!sunic.se!tau.luth.se!d87-khd 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 strange... How very strange!!! I could have sworn I was running 2.0 on my 3000... Four !?! colors... I'll have to count them again... 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16 Well thats not 4 for sure... Lets check the version number... 36.143 Well I guess he must be wrong again :-) -- // // // \\ // // \\ // \\ // Karl Hultland,(d87-khd@sm.luth.se) \X/ \X/ \X/ University of Lulea,Sweden 500 2000 3000 I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. /C. Darwin