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From: steelie@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Jim Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Try to tell a school about Amigas? HAH!
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Date: 5 Mar 88 04:39:18 GMT
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 I think the government should break up the monopoly that Apple
has over 99.9 percent of the schools in the US. :^)
 
 Recently our school was to purchase some computers for school 
applications (which are never more than word processing and pascal
compiling) and I tried to convince them to get Amigas.  The
were set on getting *REAL* IBM's. I tried to convince them what
a waste that would be considering you can get an Amiga and the
IBM emulator for a lot less, and since they are used to the 
blazing speed (roughly 1 Mhz) of the //e I really don't think they
would notice the difference.  "The Amiga could open up new
possibilities in desktop publishing and graphic presentations"
I told them in vain.  "Why do we need graphics?" they replied.  
 
I guess the old saying "You don't know what you're missing until
you've had it before" is true.  And as the previous person mentioned,
forget about telling them how incredibly SLOW pascal is, not to
mention how disgustingly "structured" it is taught to be. They 
became quite angry when I set up a contest between to Apple //e's ,,
entered a short for-next loop on one apple in BASIC, then entered
the equivilant expression on the Apple and compiled it with PASCAL.
Needless to say, the interpreted basic won.   They were getting
steamed at around this point, so I decided it best not to bring
the Amiga in and compare C to pascal in readability of structure
and speed.  Maybe Commodore could be persuaded to try to compete
at the school and college level?  If this monopoly keeps up
we may end up with Apple //e's in the year 2000 with no technological
increase. :^) 
 
"The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once."
 
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