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From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tell me about these computers...
Message-ID: <2030060@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 14 May 88 00:11:19 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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/ hpcilzb:comp.sys.amiga / getchell@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (David Getchell) /  2:53 pm  May 11, 1988 /
>Please, don't take this as an attempt to start a stupid "my computer is better
>than yours war."  I own a Mac, and am happy with it.  I suspect that the
>people in this group are happy with their Amigas.  But I do have a couple
>of questions for you.

>1.  What made you choose the Amiga?

I like the graphics and sound capabilities of the Amiga. I want to
merge animation and things recorded from the VCR.

A big factor was the Multitasking capability.

>2.  What does it do well?

See above. I have renamed many of my commands so they are the
same as the UNIX commands I use at work. (No they work different
but the "copy" command is now "cp" on my Amiga.)

>3.  What does it not do well? The interlaced mode is bad because it flickers.
This is a function of my monitor, not the computer.  The multitasking 
capability is somewhat disappointing.  (WHOA THERE AMIGOIDS!!!) This is
due to the software, again, not the computers. (Elect. Arts.) 

>4.  How does it differ from the Mac?

The MAC only has a one button mouse.
The MAC is not color.
The MAC does not mulitask like the Amiga. I don't know the
details about this.

(This info. is from the guy that sits next to me at work that
owns a Madfjkdsh (Damn just can't seem to type it.:-) ) )

>5.  What features do you make use of on a day-to-day basis?

I usually use just the basic computer type stuff such as 
communication and text generation.(Read word processing)

I am looking into desktop publishing and animation.

>6.  What features do you rarely use?

The graphics and sound. I will in the future however.

>7.  What breaks, and how often?  (Like how often does it crash?)

I have recently had problems downloading stuff directly to my
printer from my machine at work. (an HP machine)

I didn't have this problems with my Okimate-20 but I recently got
an hp DeskJet. (which works great except for this problem.)
The system just locks up - no Guru or anything.

>I really am interested, because I hear that the Amiga is a nice machine.
>Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to play with one.  I would
>tell you all about the Mac, except that there are probably a large number
>of people on this group who aren't interested.  If you like, you can e-mail
>me.

My mailer decided it didn't want to work today -- So I am posting as a
response.

>Thanks!

Thank you for asking about the differences intelligently, and not 
being one of those "my computers great and yours is ca-ca" morons.

I hope everyone in this group behaves as well.

>David Getchell

Dave S.