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- Subject: Re: There is *NO* Amiga....STOP IT NOW
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- From: teler@pita.cs.huji.ac.il (Eyal Teler)
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 16:11:26 GMT
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- In article <4i6tma$t1i@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>, bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie) writes:
- |> I would despute that idea that PCs cost the same, PCs are about half as
- |> expensive as AT a1200s. Unless they are selling a1200s with monitors, 8 megs
- |> of fast ram, and hard drives, not to mention external keyboards, real cases,
- |> etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc...
-
- Yeah, right, and when will PCs come in real cases like the A1200, with a built
- in keyboard, and the ability to carry them anywhere, and connect them to any TV?
- Not to mention that 8megs is the minimum that a PC OS needs to run at a decent
- speed.
-
- |> The idea that you can bridgeboard or emulate PCs to achieve success with the
- |> amiga has been tried before, other than an even smaller niche market than the
- |> amiga has is it been successful. It is basically saying the machine you bought
- |> is not as good as a PC therefore you have to emulate it in slow motion or pay
- |> double for a PC on a card.
-
- Take OS/2, for example. While it certainly isn't as popular as Windows, do you
- think anyone would have bought it without Windows support? Certainly it would
- have been even less successful (I, for one, wouldn't have bought it).
-
- The whole idea is getting something which is natively better, yet supports
- other programs. Certainly not all people will jump on the offer, but those who
- are willing to try it out will be able to do so knowing that they won't lose
- the support they wanted.
-
- Eyal
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