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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 18:16:38 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
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- Alexander Chaney (achaney@omni.voicenet.com) wrote:
- : The new systems will follow. As far as the comparisons to the PCs. Well
- : that's a horse of a different color. If you judge a computer just on speed
- : then the Amiga lost, but somehow I don't believe that you would own an
- : Amiga if that's the only way you thought. The Amiga connot be judged on the
-
- Just a minor point, to appreciate an amiga requires some experience with
- platforms and knowledge of computer architecture. That is not what I would
- call the beginer who can't afford a PC yet somehow thinks the amiga is better
- because it has had preemptive multitasking since whenever. Unless they have
- been brainwashed by an amiga cult that ain't happening. :)
-
- Comparing prices, PCs and amigas are around the same. With PCs you get
- standards and cheap upgrades but bulky software and you generally have to buy a
- bundle of hardware to start. With the amiga you get proprietariness up the
- whazoo and expensive upgrades but you can eek out some activity on the machine
- in its bare state. If you have any choice in the matter at all you will go PC.
- If you are really strapped for cash you will go amiga yet resent it.
-
- Some of this can change however, the amiga can become less proprietary and
- allow cheap upgrades but you lose the ability to eek out some life from the
- machine sans everything. The PC can get religion and use less bulky software.
- I don't see much hope of either happening at the moment but I want to be wrong.
- :)
-
- : mere fact of speed alone even though we do have the '060s and PowerPCs coming.
- : Be patient AT has to make SALES in order to make NEW MODELS.
-
- Agreed.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
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