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From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Jerry declares the 2000 as 'the most improved computer'
Summary: The article was not unreasonable.
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Date: 12 Mar 89 14:16:24 GMT
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I have flamed Jerry P. a few times in this forum, but I just got done reading
his remarks that the 2000 is "the most improved computer" and he's got some
valid points (although he did give "Most Useful Computer" to yet another stupid
PC clone.)

For one thing, FFS came out in '88.  I got about 10X better performance...
that's a major improvment to say the least.

For another thing, if you have a 2090A controller as Jerry does, you can 
autoboot from your hard drive.  This was new in '88.  Granted, it's not
that big a deal, but it was an omission, and it was something about every
other machine could do, so it gave ammunition to anyone wanting to take
potshots at Our Beloved.

Finally, he mentions that software is coming around, that Word Perfect is
available for the Ami, and the the Stanford Linear Accelerator people are
doing supercool things with their Amis.

It's about the fourth column in a row from him that says entirely good things
about the Amiga, whereas before he always included some major bashing.  

Congrats and thanks to Commodore for giving him a hot machine and Joanne Dow,
et al, for holding his hand.  He *is* a loose cannon, but you guys have at
least got him pointed in the right general direction.
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