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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Here's what Pournelle has to say about Amiga in this month's Byte
Message-ID: <2913@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 25 May 88 04:32:07 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
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As always, from the end of his column. Reprinted without permission,
vol 13, no 6 of Byte:

  ... Once again I'm out of space, and I haven't got started good. One thing
  I simply *have* to talk about next time is the Amiga 2000, which can
  be a highly frustrating machine. The disk access is slow. It bombs far
  more often than it ought to. The PC part of it is plain vanilla, and
  because of the way Commodore chose to let the Amiga half-communicate
  with the PC, very few add-on PC boards will work. For all that, the
  Amiga 2000 has a prominent place here, because it's just plain *fun*
  (if frustrating). ...

Oh well, he just can't let a column go without saying at least one 
negative thing about the Amiga. This month there are also two pro-Amiga
letters in his "Chaos Minor Mail," to which he comes up with the most
unknowledgable replies. ("...PC-ditto [the PC emulator for the ST] is
quite slow, about 80% as fast as a PC, while the Amiga 2000 is exactly the
speed of a PC..." Oh, yeah, right, and that speed difference is the only
differentiating factor...)

Ali Ozer, ali@polya.stanford.edu