Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bsu-cs!jbwaters From: jbwaters@bsu-cs.UUCP (J. Brian Waters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: AppleSupport(wasre:ughh and the GS Message-ID: <6117@bsu-cs.UUCP> Date: 14 Mar 89 18:51:10 GMT References: <8903122241.aa08619@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: The Binary Bin Lines: 58 In article <8903122241.aa08619@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, RXBROWN@UALR.BITNET ("MR.FANTASTIC") writes: > Arkansas. I have been hearing about all of these great features that the > Amiga can do and, telling people that the GS can do it too, but its just not Given the current hardware the Amiga has the edge for the most part in all but sound. > as impressive. It was also kind of hard to tell them the GS only ran at >2.5Mhz. Clock speeds only compare among members of the same processor. If you remember the trs-80 vs Apple ][ debates of long ago, a 1 MHz 6502 would beat a 2 MHz z80 on almost all benchmarks... > I would like multi-tasking mainly because I would like to play a game while Multi-tasking is something that grows on you.. kinda like updating to a floppy after using cassetes on the old apple ][. At first the disk drive was a luxary, now it is a must have. I would never go back to tape now. > I have a side line comment here. I think Commodore is releasing too many > Amigas. They don't let any of their machines mature, and people are still > playing with the thing. One of these jerks I argue with keeps saying the Two many amigas? there are really only three... and the difference among them are less then most seem to think... you can get the same HW to run on both the 500 and the 1000.... and the 2000 has the slots for easier expansion. The same sofware runs on all the machines, you order software for an Amiga you do not have to order it for an 'Amiga 1000 etc'. The new 2500 models are just the 2000 with some nice hardware already installed in the slots. > I just have to tell him thats why we are a multi-million dollar company. Hmmm... and so is Commodore and so is IBM... but that does not really prove much... it just proves that at one time the company grew... I have owned and Apple ][ since 1979... and am very glad especialy during the early 80s when it was THE machine to have. That was when all owners got a free montly magazine (softalk) paid for with advertising of all the new products that came out monthly... I think the Amiga is just about to enter its equivalant part of its life. (Though I doubt it will get a free magazine paid for with mostly game ads... computing has gotten to serious these days... sigh...) > Just remember, We were here second and the first one went for busniess market. > Everybody else learned from our mistakes, but we are still alive and kicking. I assume "we" refers to Apple? Apple was where second? Who was first? IBM? If that is who you are thinking of your cronology is a bit off... Apple was one of the early players in the turnkey micro market. It was one of the first that came with Basic in ROM in a pretty case etc... and was part of the second generation of micros after the Altair etc.. along with the PET and TRS-80... IBM did not come out till 82-83 with their micro... and something that I love to show people telling my I should buy an IBM since it has so much software is a review in BYTE saying "The IBM PC is nice, but it does not have the software for it that the Apple ][ has etc...." -- Brian Waters !{iuvax|pur-ee}!bsu-cs!jbwaters