Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!ncar!ames!necntc!mirror!rayssd!ukma!david
From: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple...
Keywords: Sad
Message-ID: <10169@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 27 Aug 88 14:58:35 GMT
References: <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP> <64123@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: david@ms.uky.edu (David Herron -- One of the vertebrae)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
Lines: 23

In article <64123@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes:
>>3)  The Amiga is loosing ground to the new IBM's and the Mac II.
...
>THESE ARE NOT COMPARABLE SYSTEMS.
>
>Period, by any measure the stock Amiga is less powerful than a 32 bit
>16 - 25Mhz machine. Are we suprised?

Ok.  So is the problem one of perception? Commodore put the A2000
into a box that looks vaguely like an AT. Therefore people expect
at least AT class performance out of it. Or better performance because
it's a 'new' machine and new machines in AT boxes are really fast.

The misconception/perception I'm talking about here is the one where
people are constantly comparing the A2000 to MacII's and the 386
based machines.

-- 
<---- David Herron -- The E-Mail guy                         <david@ms.uky.edu>
<---- ska: David le casse\*'      {rutgers,uunet}!ukma!david, david@UKMA.BITNET
<---- Problem: how to get people to call ...; Solution: Completely reconfigure 
<---- your mail system then leave for a weeks vacation when 90% done.