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From: harald@ccicpg.UUCP ( Harald Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Commodore's handling of the Amiga  [was Re: Apple stumbles...]
Message-ID: <4120@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 06:28:13 EST
Article-I.D.: ccicpg.4120
Posted: Tue Nov 10 06:28:13 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 07:00:10 EST
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In article <6613@apple.UUCP>, dwb@apple.UUCP (David W. Berry) writes:
> In article <8711030308.AA01230@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>>>Networking, which is becoming more and more important to businesses, is not
>>>nearly as easy an option on an Amiga as it is on the macintosh; furthermore,
>>>the spreadsheet and accounting software available for the Amiga is (in my
>>>opinion) severely lacking--this will really hurt business sales.  The screen
>>	
>>	Actually, Networking is quite a bit easier to do on the Amiga than
>>on the macintosh, especially integration into the filesystem. 
> 	Sorry, I can't buy this one.  
> The amiga requires extra hardware (=$, probably significant
> amounts thereof)

	Well for the price of a hard disk, my Amiga has gigabytes of mass
storage available to me. It's called NFS. I rlogin to multiple UNIX superminis
simultaneously. No apples around here, just IBM PCs used as workstation
front ends to VLSI CAD software. Not to mention SUN, Apollo, Mentor, etc.
I run diskless, except to boot. As in no disk, hard or otherwise. I talk to
$50,000.00 plotters, emulate Tek 4014 terminals to view raw raster bitmaps.
All for less than Mac II with nothing. And yes, we are a business.
Just what does apple have to offer in this direction? NFS? Anything?

>	There are several network filesystem packages readily available
>for the mac/appletalk (Tops, AppleShare, others)

	So how about NFS? UNIX? Ethernet? Does appletalk hold a candle?

>All the Macintosh user has to do is buy the cable and applications he wants
>plug in the cables and go.

	Perhaps you can tell me what appletalk is good for? We are are not into
desktop publishing, although that's trivial with UNIX tools. After all with
UNIX, you are camera ready with phototype of a book, of which many UNIX books
are already done. Guess you shouldn't tell anyone about that.

>While as a programmer I can laud the extreme
>modularity of the Amiga System Software which allows me to replace the file
>system code and easily implement network file systems, the average user
>really doesn't care, he just wants to be able to get his work done in a
>consistent environment.

	That's a neat idea if you live in Macland. Who does? Just NFS spoken
here.



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