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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: 28 Mar 1996 19:43:03 GMT
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- Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- : Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote:
-
- : : How far begind the times will it be when it runs the exact same CPU
- : : as your precious Macintosh? Has PCI slots? uses standard GFX cards?
- : : One thing is for damn sure.. Copeland had better be out for the Mac in
- : : first quarter 1997 and live up to it's hype or the Amiga will eclipse it
- : : completely in capability.
-
- : Oh? The amiga OS is getting networking, TCP,
-
- It's an acknowledged (by AT) need
-
- : QuickTime,
-
- Apple is supposed to have already done the port to the Amiga - it was one
- of the reasons(?) that AT selected the PowerPC processor
-
- : a top-notch scripting language?
-
- ARexx has existed for the last 5+ years, as part of the OS.
-
- : Perhaps thousands of new programs for it will
- : suddenly spring from the brow of AT fully formed? :-)
-
- That would be nice, but we know that it won't happen over night.
-
- : The PowerAmiga is AT's last chance to stay alive--to say it will eclipse
- : Copland is preposterous unless you try to limit the comparison to one or two
- : technical points and ignore the big picture.
-
- The 'big' picture is that YES, PowerAmiga is probably the last chance to
- introduce the Amiga back into the market place. Will it become a 'standard'
- to which Wintel boxes are measured? Most likely not. Will it carve out it's
- niche? Most definitely - a niche as big as Apples? Can't say, but after a
- $700 million (US) loss, apple's niche might be badly damaged...
-
- And Copeland may ALSO be Apple's last chance. Now that it's delayed again
- until '97, you have to start wondering what Apple is going to do next...
-
- jerry
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