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From: cma5_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
Message-ID: <14441@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 91 14:54:26 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.204407.16603@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY
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>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
                          ^^^^ provide data please!

>   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. 

How about the majority of universities?
I guess they are just stupid and shortsighted. Too bad that every company's
survival depends on the market demand and even worse the market demand is
driven by those dumb majority.

Don't get me wrong. I think Amiga is a nice computer and I am planning to get
one in the (hopefully not so distant) future. But it's not THE computer, becausethere is not such thing.
Oh yeah, I've used Amiga before.

Take care.


chin

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