Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Sculley on Compu$erve
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.025850.10144@utstat.uucp>
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 90 02:58:50 GMT
References: <9012010506.AA06783@apple.com> <1990Dec6.062544.22949@techbook.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto
Keywords: Sculley, "truth in marketting"

In article <1990Dec6.062544.22949@techbook.com> tsouth@techbook.com (Todd South) writes:

[stuff re Apple, marketing, new computer purchase, A3500, A3000,etc...cut]

I don't want to put down the Amiga as it is a very nice computer but if you
are expecting more from Commodore than from Apple in terms of support, you
must not be reading the same computer information that I do.

There is an issue that many people forget when buying a computer and that is
what they are buying it for. The Mac and the Amiga are overkill as just plain
terminals and they are both underpowered for most workstation type work. In
the Amiga()'s case, it is hampered even more by a lack of software support.
If you want Unix, you don't buy an Amiga, Mac,etc...Go get a Unix workstation.
There is a price war in that arena. You can get a NeXTStation, Sparc,etc...
for less than the cost of an Amiga 3000UX, MacII()+A/UX,etc...I opted for a
NeXT cube as it was as close to a micro as I could find in the Unix world.
Thus my main setup has now become a GS as a terminal and a NeXT for work. Havingbeen in the Mac world for years, I must tell you that the micro world is 
falling behind rapidly in terms of price/performance. I see no point in
Commodore, Apple,etc...pushing Unix( except as a way of getting government
contracts). They should concentrate on their native OS's.

That leaves the GS. Unless Apple lowers its price by half, it will be history
very soon. I love the computer. I could, however, never justify its price
compared to the competition now( but I could a year ago).

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto-> philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]