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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Another Amiga competitor?
Message-ID: <851@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 18:55:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 18:55:15 1987
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Summary: True, true.

In article <1630@chinet.UUCP>, sid@chinet.UUCP (Sid Grange) writes:
>                               As was stated, the proprietary system doesn't
> multitask, but this machines *seems* to have a reasonable potential for
> running real Unix, where the Amiga does not (I've had one, and know it's
> problems, so let's not debate it :-).

No argument. But, funny as it may seem, I don't want to run a third party
operating system... even UNIX. I'm sure you're as aware as I am of the
resounding success of such products (let's see... UNIX on the PDP-11 is
a hit in certain technical markets, but that's about it). I want to be able
to sell any programs I come up with. Right now the Amiga is the only machine
with an acceptable native O/S aimed at the home market.

I mean, if I wanted to run UNIX an IBM-PC/AT is much cheaper.

>                                       Plus the machine appears to be over
> four times faster than an Amiga or ST.

True, and a palpable hit. But then, the 68020 improves the Amiga's speed by
a factor of at least 3 for CPU-intensive computation. Disk-intensive stuff is
going to be I/O bound anyway.

>                                        On the other hand, it may never reach
> the U.S.

Sigh. Anyone remember the Torch XXX? I lusted in my heart for that one. What
the Amiga/Mac/ST should have been.
-- 
-- Peter da Silva  `-_-'  ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter
-- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.