Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!news From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: AMIGA Message-ID: Date: 4 May 91 21:43:16 GMT References: <4378@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Jan10.010956.8925@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan10.082327.7378@rice.edu> <1991Jan10.123112.29464@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Sender: news@cs.psu.edu (Usenet) Distribution: usa Organization: Penn State Computer Science Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG's message of 10 Jan 91 12:31:12 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: sunws5.sys.cs.psu.edu In article <1991Jan10.123112.29464@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: Where have we heard this story before? Bill Gates saying "most people don't need multitasking" until Windows 3.0 struggled out of the shop years late and barely functional? Steven Jobs saying "most people don't need color" after the NeXT couldn't be delivered with it at an affordable price? IBM saying "nobody's really doing multimedia with Of course, everyone would like color. It's just a matter of justify the extra cost for it. What do you use color for? Some people would rather buy a 386 instead of the NeXT just so they can get color. But the NeXT monochrome display looks much better in my opinion. Color doesn't add nearly as much functionality to the computer as does the 17" 92 dpi high resolution display and Display Postscript. microcomputers" until they finally started playing catchup, five years late? Apple saying "what would you ever want to have running with your current job, except a print spooler or a download, choose one" after the Finder bogosity kept the Mac from delivering usable multitasking? Atari saying "why would you want an OS that supports processor upgrades" after TOS locked the whole Atari software base to the 68000? The Mac and OS/2/PM and X-windows folks, trying to explain why programming a GUI has to be worse than having a root canal? How much multimedia are you doing with your computer? -Mike