Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!convex!swarren From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga will bump Mac. Message-ID: <1991Apr03.224953.21366@convex.com> Date: 3 Apr 91 22:49:53 GMT References: <40693@cup.portal.com> <1991Mar31.055402.7293@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Mar31.182044.27856@sugar.hackercorp.com> Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 38 Nntp-Posting-Host: neptune.convex.com In article <1991Mar31.182044.27856@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: >The IBM-PC clones are already the Chevy of computers. >-- >Peter da Silva. `-_-' >. No way, to qualify as the "Chevy" it has to be manufactured by a single manufacturer. Chevys are not known for any "architectural" distinction. It's the name-brand recognition that sets them apart. You would have to pick out a specific clone manufacturer to call "Chevy". Clones are more like Yugos or Hyundais. Leave out the A/C and make the bumpers paper-thin; just crank them out and keep 'em dirt cheap. If you want an automobile analogy I'd say that the Mac was a Cadillac; low "performance" for price - expensive name plate - but it takes the "bumps" real nice - and the baseline model comes with power seats. ;^) Performance is sacrificed in favor of comfort. The NeXT is a DeLorean - full-featured; high-performance - if you can get one. Actually in Europe the Amiga has no problem claiming the title of "Chevy". It's only in the USA that this analogy becomes more difficult to make. And it isn't really *that* far off in the USA; one of the things I remember about my Chevy (I drive an Accord now) was how easy (and cheap) it was to turn a fairly tame machine into a fire-breathing pavement chewer. I don't know of any other computer that you can start out so cheap in and progressively "hot-rod" your way up the power scale so easilly. With most other computers there is no way to upgrade processor power in any way approaching the flexibility of the Amiga. Those that do allow this feature generally do not do it as well or as cheaply as the Amiga does. _. --Steve ._||__ DISCLAIMER: All opinions are my own. Warren v\ *| ---------------------------------------------- V {uunet,sun}!convex!swarren; swarren@convex.com --