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From: dennison@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Theodore Dennison)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
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Date: 7 May 89 22:39:11 GMT
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In article <17840@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>I was in a Computerland the other day, and I tried to use a model 50
>running OS/2.  It booted, and the first thing I typed *Crashed* the
>machine.  I know, OS/2 isn't supposed to crash.  But it did.
>First time I ever touched OS/2, too.  I'll stick with my Amiga.
>
>I've crashed PC's, Amigas, Ataris, Macintoshes, etc., but I don't recall
>something ever crashing quite so quickly.

IBM had a big PS2 demo here at TULANE about a month ago and I went to see
what all the fuss was about. They had several displays set up. They had
a stereo MIDI display with a 20 hooked up to a keyboard. No bad, but the
20's are realy just toys. A little farther over I saw a very impressive
looking presentation using touch sensitive screens and impressive graphics.
I tried to see what kind of PS2 was generating this impressive display, but
it was not out. I traced some wire under a table, and found it hidden away.
It was not a PS2 at all! It was some kind of dedicated hardware they had
brought with them that seemed to be made for this one purpose.
  A little over from this they had some IBM bigwig explaining how his
company solved some stupid little hardware problem ad nausemum (and calling
it a "revolution" every 4 sentences, to try to keep the audience awake).
  I found a PS2/50 and told the salesman, "Impress me!" He opened one window,
then tried to open another one, and the machine froze. He said, "Damn, I
fragmented memory again!" and rebooted the machine! It had just been turned
on when this happened!
   Their PS2/70 seemed to work allright, and even had some fairly neat
packages with it. Of course their WP package did not support color, but
you can't have everything, can you? (Sarcasm)  The graphics display seemed
ok, but the speed a requester was erased from the screen was actualy slow
enough to watch.

   The only computer they had that could physicaly compete with my Amiga 1000
(which I have had for 3 1/2 years) was their top of the line 70 (the 80's
are not AVAILABLE to students). These cost, at the student discount, $4,400
Considering I could buy a top of the line Amiga for $2000 with everything
the IBM has, with NO discount, apparently IBM feels that their corporate
logo is worth at least $2,200, and thousands more to business people.


That's a lot of dough for three little letters!

T.E.D.