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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
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Subject: Re: Surely A Iifx Blows An Amiga 3
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Date: 21 Oct 90 03:44:46 GMT
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In article <7876.271B9F29@fidogate.FIDONET.ORG> Sonny.Shrivastava@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sonny Shrivastava) writes:
>        
>Tell me, what can you do with a black/white 640x400 INTERLACED flickering 
>screen display?  Next to nothing.  All new Macs will have 512k 32-bit clean 
>ROMs.  That will render newly written software practically useless on the 
>Amax.  I think your Amiga friend is suffering from Mac envy, even though 
>he'll never admit it.
>
	Admittedly, the AMax compatibility is only Mac Plus
compat., however you should realize that flicker-fixers are
built-in to Amiga 3000's and are available for Amiga 2000's. AMax
will also work fine on Amigas with accelerators just fine. Also,
most software does work on Mac Pluses with enough memory and a
hard drive.
	I would never recommend someone get an Amiga just for the
Mac compatibility, nor for the IBM compatibility. However, they
give people who want Amigas for other reasons but also need
compatibility with other machines the ability to get the best of
both worlds.
	There is no need for senseless flames. Amigas and Macs
both have advantages for different people. Have you seen Amiga
3000s, or even an Amiga with a flicker-fixer? The Amiga's native
multitasking and very responsive OS are it's primary advantages
to non-video/multimedia people. However, although the Amiga may
not currently have the greatest proffesional software, not
everyone needs the highest quality. The Amiga has some excellent
word processors, spreadsheets and databases. Unfortunately there
is no WordPerfect 5.1, Excel or FoxBase. This doesn't make the
system suck, just make it inappropriate for someone doing heavy
duty spreadsheets.

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	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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