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Subject: Re: AMIGA 2000 and IBM compatability
Message-ID: <336@john.paul.RUTGERS.EDU>
Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 23:05:12 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  3 23:05:12 1987
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> From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)

> In article <2845@ecsvax.UUCP> urjlew@ecsvax.UUCP (Rostyk Lewyckyj) writes:
>>So where does this leave the AMIGA 2000, (and the new MAC ?)
>>which have been making so much of their their IBM PC capabilities?

Huh?  I haven't heard exceedingly much about the Mac II having any IBM
PC capabilities, except for a 3rd party '286 board.  Unix, yes, but
very little about PC compatibility.

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

Doesn't bother me.  The PC style machine will be around a good long
time, and thus so will hardware and software for it.

> 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.

At the least, C-A has a little breathing room to do a bit of inventive
R&D for future machines now that the line has filled out.

> 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

Ahhh... I wouldn't count IBM in that fast.  Remember the fuss over the
PC Jr.  It was going to standardize the home market.  Righto.

> 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

Hmm.  The Mac II's base price is quite high for people who want to get
a flashy machine that is just a large Mac at this point.  After you
add Unix and the necessary hard disk, you are entering Sun territory.
I seriously hope that they have plans for a friendly multitasking OS
other than Unix that won't require the physical and monetary resources
of Unix.
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     David P. Zimmerman     rutgers!dpz     dpz@rutgers.edu