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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <1460@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Apr-87 15:55:42 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1460
Posted: Thu Apr  2 15:55:42 1987
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Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>
>O.K. folks. This thursday IBM is going to announce its new PCs.
>According to all the rumours they will use a new proprietary
>buss, and none of the existing expansion boards will work in
>this new machine.
>So where does this leave the AMIGA 2000, (and the new MAC ?)
>which have been making so much of their their IBM PC capabilities?

Well, I don't know exactly where it will leave the Amiga 2000, but I kinda
think it is a good thing. 

I figure it means the Amiga 3000 will have to concentrate more on
better graphics, better software, better you-name-it, rather than
wasting time on me-too-ism.

Anyone who wants to jump on the IBM bandwagon is not going to buy
an Amiga 2000, he's going to buy one of the new IBMs.  Anyone who
wants the latest glitzy features is going to buy a Mac II or wait
for the Amiga 3000.  Hackers who want both the Amiga's glitzy features
and to run the megapiles of PC compatible software will buy an
A2000 I suppose.  Either that or they'll get an A500 *and* a budget
PC clone.

Keith Doyle
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