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From: jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Shekhel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Automobile Analogies (Was Re: Amiga will bump Mac.)
Message-ID: <1034@stewart.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 91 19:41:15 GMT
References: <40693@cup.portal.com> <1991Mar31.055402.7293@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Mar31.182044.27856@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Apr03.224953.21366@convex.com>
Reply-To: jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel)
Organization: Polygen Corporation, Waltham, MA
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swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren) writes:
>
>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.
>

Clones span too many categories to be compared to cars this way.  The first
generation (8088/8086) clones can certainly be compared to cheap cars with
sluggish performance -- they suck in every way except price.  However,
a 486/33 is more like a Lamborghini Countach -- it ain't the prettiest or the
most comfortable environment for the driver, but it moves faster than anything
else.
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