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From: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: IBM vs AMIGA cost
Summary: Dontcha hate it?
Keywords: Amiga, IBM = Trash
Message-ID: <482@telxon.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 90 13:34:57 GMT
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Reply-To: davidw@telxon.UUCP (David Wright)
Organization: TELXON Corporation, Akron OH
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	Don't you hate how these people:
	1) Always use bargain-basement prices. Checking a recent Byte
		gave me prices on the average of $150-200 more on everything
		he listed, the worst being 4 meg of 80ns RAM.
	2) Always overlooking the most important aspect of having color,
		a mouse, windowing, multitasking, etc. Namely, the level
		of integration into the system OS and the amount of
		software that supports it. The IBM has several different
		windowing systems, and they are all incompatible with
		each other. They also have a very large amount of overhead
		in your executable. And multitasking under OS/S is a joke.
		The amount of memory required to do it definately rules it out
		for the average user, and it can only run 1 program in dos
		emulation at a time.
	The Amiga on the other hand, can very effectively multitask with only
512k (and even 256k, if you still have one of the really old 1000's). It's
windowing system adds very little overhead to your programs, and there is one
standard for the mouse, graphics, windows, etc.