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From: rwm@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Okay, you Amiga Types, its time to bash your amiga. :)
Message-ID: <57521.664072403@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>
Date: Wed Jan 16 18:33:23 1991
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
In-Reply-To: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna)

In a message posted on 15 Jan 91 15:18:46 GMT,
aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sriram Ramkrishna) wrote:
SR>Okay, I got a question here.  Now, we all heard how great and wonderful
SR>the Amiga is.  Now, I want to know, what are its bad points?  Especially,
SR>the new Amiga 3000.  Are people finding things wrong with it?  I heard that

Well, I'm not sure if you got my original posting to this group (It was about
the 4'th message).  In general, I am extremely happy with the Amiga system (I 
bought it for it's OS, and it's I/O capabilities, so all this 'Graphics/Sound'
comparisons mean nothing to me at all), everyone has their gripes.

  I deal a lot with telecomunications, so serial drivers is something I deal
with . Commodore refuses to Acknowledge the fact that the current serial.device
does NOT have a proper way to control the DTR line.  The 'documented' way to do
this is the CLOSE the device, wait, and then re-open.  They provide a method
to SHARE the serial device (With only one task, obviously, with read-requests
pending ;-) which NEGATES the possibility of their 'documented' DTR control to work.
Also, several pieces of hardware make use of out-of-band data where the device
can be written to WHILE the DTR is low - obviously impossible with Commodore's
software.

  Commodore Marketing has always got me going.  Engeneering produces some of
the best Hardware and software in the industry, and Marketing always find new and
wonderful ways to oppose the possibility of these being sold.  An example would
be the A590 drive - A VERY good controller, but they ONLY market it with the
worse piece of Junk Hard drive you can think of - If Commodore marketing sold the
A590 WITHOUT the drive inside (Allowing dealers/users to put their own (BETTER)
drives into it) they would sell MANY units.  Commodore marketing has always
tried to hide the A500 as a 'Game machine': An example of this can be seen with
their policy as far as 1M Agnus A500's.  If I, as a technician at an Authorized
Commodore service center modify an A500 to make USE of the 1M agnus already
shipped with the machine (IE: Change the jumpers in a Rev6 motherboard) the WARRANTY
is VOID!  On an A2000, though, I can change the ChipSet, cut jumpers, Add resistors
(Required for upgrades from 4.x to 4.5 and from 6.1 to 6.2) and the machine
keeps it's FULL WARRANTY.  Does this make any sence to you?

  Anyways, I could go on.  I do not, however, want to give a false impression of
my beliefs towards the Amiga.  I have chosen this machine over all the other
Systems available, and have been working as a Technician, and as a registered
software developer for the machine for quite some time.  

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