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- From: pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil (Richard Pitre)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 18:46:33 GMT
- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
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- I don't think that there was any conspiracy.
- I don't think that C= could have done much better than they did.
- The Amiga had vastly superior low level technology but:
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- 1. It did not convert that superiority into something that was immediately and
- obviously more useful to most customers. Yes you and I and many other graphics
- oriented people did experience a truely incredibly brilliant piece of work in
- the Amiga kernal and graphics system. It did with a measly 7Mhz, 16bit data bus
- what todays PCs are doing with 100+Mhz and 32 bit busses. And it does real
- multitasking better than even unix does it for a personal computer.
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- 2. People want to buy what their friends buy because they are insecure and they
- don't want to look stupid. So if IBM said that a PC was good then who are your
- friends to argue with IBM. After all, in 1985, how many people really knew
- enough about personal computers to make a strong argument that a PC was the
- piece of trash that it actually was.
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