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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 91 22:10:28 GMT
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peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <91MAR12.134551@ducvax.auburn.edu> cs220x2a@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>> 3)  Apple comes out with more innovative products than any other computer 
>> company.

>The last innovative product that came out of Apple... let's see. How about the
>original Macintosh? What have they done since then that wasn't just putting
>faster chips in the same basic box?

  What happens if you apply the exact same reasoning to Commodore?
You could say "The last innovative product to come out of Commodore was
the original Amiga.  What have they done since then that wasn't just
putting faster chips in the same basic box?"

  One could argue that Apple has been more innovative than Commodore
over the last 5 years. Apple started off with a monochrome, one-size
monitor non-expandable system. Since then they've added things like
32-bit colour, expansion slots, RISC graphics coprocessors, monitors
of any size you can afford to pay for - and software like Truetype,
Hypercard, Multifinder and even A/UX [which runs old Mac applications
as a task under Unix...something the Amiga can't do comparably with
Amiga applications].

  What has Commodore done in the same period?  Amigas still seem to
have the same old colour restrictions, pretty much the same old
resolutions, pretty much the same old graphics chip set.  If
anyone's been resting on their haunches putting out incremental
improvements, it's Commodore, not Apple.

[Before you flame, read and consider carefully.  Ask yourself, "What
has Commodore done over the past 5 years to the Amiga?" ]

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