Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!navas From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: <14284@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 25 Jun 91 23:27:41 GMT References: <1991Jun20.075145.22785@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <1108.2865c128@vger.nsu.edu> <1121.2867453d@vger.nsu.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU Lines: 34 In article <1121.2867453d@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes: >In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) writes: >> What do 3rd party producers make for Mac's??? Whats their bag? > >They don't, and that is the point! Apple extracts maximum dollars for its I'm sorry, try again. Apparently you haven't been doing your research :) Firstly, Apple doesn't make a particularly spectacular harddrive controller, so 3rd parties have enough room to make what we would call a "decent" contoller. Secondly, because Apple has advanced to providing on-board SCSI, 3rd parties have had to push out high-end stuff like disk arrays, etc. >Do you really want Commodore to be the only game in town when it comes >time to expand your machine?? No, but taking the position that advancing the state of the art for the Amiga is a *bad* idea is silly. The 3rd party people who are successful enough will survive by revamping their product line, those that aren't will die. May sound Darwinian, but I'd rather have technically superior hardware instead of what, for example, the PC world is stuck with. Remember that the lead time between product announcement and product shipment will give 3rd parties more than enough time to compensate. Something to think about, anyway. >> Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 >manes@vger.nsu.edu David Navas navas@cory.berkeley.edu 2.0 :: "You can't have your cake and eat it too." Also try c186br@holden, c260-ay@ara and c184-ap@torus