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From: rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991Jan10.010956.8925@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 01:09:56 GMT
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In article <4378@mindlink.UUCP> a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:
>> 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
>--
>Please reply to curt@cynic.wimsey.bc.ca or curt@cynic.uucp.
>No silly quotes from this machine....


DREAM ON. NOTHING BEATS THE AMIGA. NOTHING! NeXT? It doesn't cook
spaghetti so it's no good! IBM? It has Intel chips, that disqualifies
it immediately from being useful. Mac? Its made by Apple, get real!
Price? Who cares about price. Once you see an Amiga, you'll buy it
no matter what the price is, just because its an Amiga. 

:-) :-) :-)

Seriously. NeXT's with 040's are vaporware until the 040 starts
shipping in large quantities, so you are forced to compare the
Amiga3000 with the CUBE. And in price/performance, the Amiga wins.
An Amiga w/A2024 monitor can easily compare to the NeXT's monchrome
resolution. Add color toy your NeXT and you just blew your price advantage.

IBMs I dont even wanna talk about. They have an operating system that
reminds me of Kaypro's running CP/M, and a CPU which reminds me of Z80's.

As for Amiga color, there's always Video Toaster, Video Blender,
A2410, Color Burst, Firecracker/24, DCTV, HAM-E, Harlequin, VideoMaster 32
and more. Sooner or later the OS will support them in one way or
another, or XWindows will become the Amiga's secondary GUI. 
(Think of running X applications and Intuition windows on the same screen!)
And Xwindows contains the necessary components to support DVI/RTG.

Amiga... Its not just a computer, its a RELIGION! All hail the king of
multimedia since 1985!