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From: mnc@turing.acs.virginia.edu (Michael N. Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <1991Jun11.204407.16603@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Date: 11 Jun 91 20:44:07 GMT
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I'm getting a bit tired of all these ATTEMPT to crush the Amiga, to make it cower before the "superior" Mac OS and the "incredible" IBM graphics. A few points:
 
1) Most people who bash Amigas just plain don't know what they're talking about
   They've maybe seen an Amiga, but just arne't familiar with how powerful they
   are.
2) Amigas make IBMs look like toys and Macs look like 1mhz machines. No other 
   microcomputer operating system multitasks as well as AmigaDOS. NONE. Other
   system just don't have the hardware support for it - they spend 3/4s the 
   machine time processing graphics and i/o. Amigas can handle HUGE amounts of
   using VERY little system time.
3) The Amiga starting out as a video (game) machine, yes it did. Fine. It still
   has much better integration of graphics and MUCH better animation abilities
   than any other micro. Amigas are beaten not by these joke Mac and IBM single
   processor non-multitasking throwbacks, but rather by much more expensive woe
   processor SLOW monsters, but rather by much more expensive minicomputer
   workstations. Why are many universities chosing the Amiga 3000 as their
   primary UNIX system for students? Because it's a video game machine with
   low quality video? Because it's slow compared to IBMs and Macs running UNIX?
   I DON'T THINK SO. 

I could go on and on and on. So, in summary, Amiga bashers just aren't familiar

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