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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.games,comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar12.224905.4774@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 91 22:49:05 GMT
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In article <91MAR12.134551@ducvax.auburn.edu> cs220x2a@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>2)  APPLETALK IS NOT MEANT TO COMPETE WITH ETHERNET. It is intended to be an 
>economical (built-in even) networking solution for the small business or other 
>network.  You are not supposed to say, wire a university with AppleTalk, 
>though some people, like yourself, think that's what Apple intended.  If you 
>want EtherNet speed...BUY ETHERNET!

   Huh? WHat use is it in Education, if you can't say, wire  up a classroom
to one printer.

>3)  Apple comes out with more innovative products than any other computer 
>company.  What company has slashed prices like Apple?  What company has 
>introduces new models almost every single year?  Face it, Apple is on the 
>cutting edge.  Yes, it needs to add a graphics coprocessor, but considering a 
>16 mhz SE/30 doing all its own graphics can outpreform a 20 mhz 386 running 
>Windows with a separate processor, it's obvious Apple does some amazing 
>technology tricks.

  Oh come on, wake up. The reason Apple releases new models every year
is because the Mac doesn't have an open architecure to expand. The 
Amiga 2000 is so expandible, it's still a useful machine, even with the 
introduction of the A3000. Apple's slashed prices? GET REAL. All Apple
did was lower the prices to what they should have been years ago! Apple's
been overpricing their products for years! The Mac Classic is nothing more than
a repackaged Mac (e.g. Old technology) with a slightly lower price and a 
new name. Apple release more innovative products than any computer company?
NAME THEM. Not a single Mac computer is ahead of it's time, nor does it
deliver hardware power for a low price. The 7mhz Amiga 1000 can 
outperform the Mac IIfx at graphics sound and animation, and it was released
in 1985.

>Finally, let's move this debate to some other conference...say the Mac 
>miscellaneous or the Amiga advocate.  Just tell me where it goes, because 
>those who flame the Mac the most are those who don't use them much.

I'd altered the followup's line to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy.

>Wade Williams
>cs220x2a@ducvax.auburn.edu