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From: Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0 [ and some 1.4
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Date: 19 May 89 03:51:32 GMT
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* A Macoid writes...
>/* Written  5:17 am  May 11, 1989 by bdiscoe@tybalt.caltech.edu in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.amiga */
> AMIGA's are inexpensive to BEGIN WITH.  You don't need to be tricked into
> thinking you're getting some huge discount.  Apple's prices are so
> grossly inflated, it's a rip-off even buying a peripheral from them.
> This is a straight business FACT, not opinion.

*Well, in some cases this FACT is dead WRONG.  *ALL* Mac's come with
          ^^^^ I got news for you. You can get a hell of a lot more Amiga than
               Mac for the same amount of money, in ALL cases.

*very high-quality displays, and very good mice/keyboards.  I don't
*think the Amiga monitors and mice and keyboard are of equal quality.
 ^^^^^
I love this, your making comments about the Amiga? It's plain to see that you
DON'T know what you are talking about! Have you even ever SEEN an Amiga? Or
God forbid actually used one? I doubt it.

*All this Mac-bashing is senseless.  Clearly, Apple spends most of its
*development money on OTHER "wins".  The Mac is an interactive machine.

Clearly, Apple spends most of it's money on PR and advertising. I don't think
anyone denies this. They could teach IBM a thing or two.

*I think the mac is a nearly perfect "Personal Computer" by the
*original definition that came from Xerox PARC.  The *Application*

MMMMMM... sounds to me like it is time for Xerox to take Apple to court and sue
them for "look and feel".  :) :)

*I used to program Xerox DLions with multitasking & virtual memory, and
*they thrashed like hell with 2-3 tasks running, and died for sure with
*5 tasks running at once.  I sure hope the amiga is more robust.
                                  ^^^^

Don't ya just love it when someone talks about the Amiga and they clearly DON'T
know what the hell they are talking about? Myself, I am getting tired of it.

*Oh geez, now I'm going to get a flood of flame mail *shudder*

 I sure hope so! Anyone who tries to compare one machine to another, and 
obviously does not know of what he speaks, yet tries to make machine "A" look
better than machine "B" DESERVES to be flamed to a crisp! :>

*Don Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois
*1304 W. Springfield, Urbana, Ill 61801      
*ARPA: gillies@cs.uiuc.edu   UUCP: {uunet,harvard}!uiucdcs!gillies

          - Doug -

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