Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: RE: Re: AppleSupport(wasre:ughh and the GS Message-ID: <8903130103.aa10373@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 13 Mar 89 05:49:26 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 > ...One of these jerks I argue with keeps saying the >Amiga is taking part of the Mac's market, and he does not even own an Amiga. >I just have to tell him thats why we are a multi-million dollar company. If you happended to catch the Computer Chronicles over the weekend, you'd have found that the "jerk" is correct. Nasa's Ames Research Center was shown using Amiga's to run a helicopter simulator (among other things). While the show spent much of it's time on games and "gee whiz" entertainment, it also showed off some serious productivity applications and made the case that, in MANY uses, the Amiga permits greater productivity (for a LOWER PRICE too) than even the Mac II. The smart folks are buying Amigas instead of Macs (when they can find software to do what they need to do). Apple's darn lucky that the Amiga's marketed by Commodore and hasn't been taken as seriously by software developers as the hardware (and operating system) merits. I LOVE the name of the operating system, "Intuition" (Apple shoulda thought of it first but didn't :-( Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) According to the American Facsimile Association, more than half the calls from Japan to the U.S. are fax calls. FAX it to me at: 1-203-486-5246