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From: a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <4378@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jan 91 16:50:00 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> jon@brahms.udel.edu writes:
> 
> Listen, you guys are simply missing the POINT!
> 
> There is nothing better than the Amiga, and there
> never, ever will be.  It's just THAT SIMPLE!
> 
> It's quite simple if you would just accept the obvious!

Well, I suppose it depends on whether you get educational discounts or not.
For $4500 (Canadian) I can get a NeXT with better graphics (though no colour
:-(), a bettter OS (BSD 4.3), better sound and amazingly more CPU horsepower
and Ethernet built in.  Alternatively, I can get an IBM with better graphics,
more CPU power and more memory and hard drive space for an equivalant price to
any Amiga.  And again, I can, for a nominal charge, grab a copy of 386BSD and
be running a decent OS on it.  The Amiga is a reasonable machine, but pricewise
it just doesn't complete.

cjs
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