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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Mac OS / Amiga OS
Message-ID: <5591@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jun 88 14:49:37 GMT
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In article <5701@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes:
>> Amiga's 
>>system software, and hardware are a couple of years *AHEAD* of the
>>Mac, but the Mac is catching up rapidly.... etc.

Um, I think it was Chuck that wrote this part (correct me if I'm wrong).  I
agree in principle; the Amiga is definitely a more advanced design & the
software uses MUCH less precious RAM.  What I meant when I said the Mac is
a couple of years ahead (Chuck's replying to a post of mine) what basically in
the Finder (Mac Workbench).  Finder has a few nice features that Workbench is
missing (like moving windows offscreen w/o crashing), window zooming (making a
window fullscreen or small).  But Intuition has those NICE window to front/back
gadgets that Mac doesn't, and the Amiga sports a CLI (which most of you use
anyway, most likely :-).  Add a low price & open the machine, and the Amiga is
the winner.

Now, to the meaty part.

>Quality of the product is not, and never will be the determining
>factor in sales.  Seen an IBM or Apple ad lately?  Seen a Commodore ad?  I'll
>give you a hint, the ten page foldout in Time magazine ISN'T the Amiga ad...

Matter of fact, there was (is?) a two-page spread in USA Today lately.  My
friendly local dealer has a copy of it in his display window, and the Atlanta
Amiga user group was passing out even more copies at the Tuesday meeting.  I
thought it was even a pretty well-written ad.  (Oh, yeah, the content?  The
title was "Before you leap at a Mac, look what an Amiga can do."  It went on
from there.)  Jim, if you send me a snail-mail address, I'll send you my copy.

	Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek