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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amiga on a mac ii budget- the sequel
Message-ID: <3078@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 2 Aug 88 04:59:02 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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In article <4793@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Herbert West) writes:
> I'm getting sick of people bad-mouthing the AMIGA. Like saying the A1000
> is getting pretty wimpy.

Actually every computer I've ever own or worked on becomes wimpy with time.
When I write a program, I want to be able to sell it to a large amount of
people as possible.  If it only runs on some super suped up version of some
machine, like say an Amiga 2000 upgraded to a psudo Mac II, then not enough 
people will be able to run the code to make it worth my while.  Slots are
great, but what about stock performance.  Since the Amiga 2000 is just the
1000 with slots for the most part it isn't a huge improvement.  So I'm
waiting for something like an Amiga 4000.   

> Shove it! The AMIGA is the BEST machine in the history of the world for
> the price. The MAC II is an overpriced joke.

Maybe, maybe not.  Really depends of what you mean.  If your talking about
machines that start a cult following maybe you've got a point. :-) :-)
Maybe the programing just was a little too weak, as I was the first kid on
my block with an Amiga. :-)

In truth though, Apple seem to being doing great with thier overpriced joke.
Maybe a super overpriced 88000 based Amiga 4000 could become the number one
selling machine.  When it comes to prices there often seems to be little 
logic.  Besides if most people REALLY want something they can find the
money.  True Apple stuff is really overpriced, but a lot of people want it. 
(Like my wife, but that is another story)

> There is nothing at all wimpy about the Amiga. Compare it to a MacIntosh or
> a Commodore 64 or an atari ST or an IBM pc. It beats them all hands down.

Nothing to say here, since I don't have any formal religious training. :-)

> Give us honest AMIGA-loving owners a break and send your whining to
> /dev/null.

I'm not whinning, just hoping to get my point driven home to the Amiga
people at CBM.  I want a much more powerful stock Amiga, not a kulge.
I also do think I'm a honest Amiga owner.  I buy Amiga software, I
use Amiga software, I've even written a little.  But you are right, I'll 
juck my Amiga before my wife, so I guess I'm not a Amiga cultist.  :-)

                                Such is life,
                                   Wayne Knapp

P.S. The wonderful thing about the net is it really allows freedom of
expression, that is also the worst thing about it.