Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!looking!brad
From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Info-Atari16 Digest V88 #330
Message-ID: <1896@looking.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 04:48:06 GMT
References: <880729-080043-5244@Xerox> <470@scolex>
Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <470@scolex> kurth@sco.COM (Kurt Hutchison) writes:
>If I had to compare computers with cars, IBM would be the Americans
>(has most of the U.S. market with mediocre machines), The Mac would be
>Honda (decent and sells a lot), and the Amiga would be Volkswagen (good
>cars, higher performance in basic models, and more maintenance (The OS is
>better but more complicated)).
>
>The ST is undeniably the Hundai of the computer world. :-)

Bad analogies, I would say.  The Mac is an overpriced machine with a bit
of sexiness and yuppie appeal.  Perhaps like a BMW.  The Amiga is hardly
a VW, since VWs are both very popular and quite reliable.  The Amiga
is more like a Lotus - zippy, for hobbyists and needing lots of maintenence.

The Atari is like a cheap Citroen.  Sells well in Europe, but not marketed
in the USA.  But otherwise it is like that Korean car.

IBMs is impossible to place.  It used to be like the Rolls Royce - solid,
slightly old technology that's expensive but very reliable and well
supported.  But now they're the ones making innovations while the clones
stay put. (Innovations in the PC world, that is.)
-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd.  --  Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473