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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 21:07:55 -0700
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling) writes:
-
- >Nathanael J Henderson (nahender@prairie.NoDak.edu) wrote:
- >: Shane Kuntz (crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com) wrote:
-
- >Well with the big losses Apple has been posting lately, I would not
- >count on Copland coming out right away.
-
- Escom lost more money as a percentage of sells than Apple and has far less
- capital. There have ben alpha versions of Copland released. We haven't seen
- anything but press releases about the PowerAmiga. As poorly as Amigas
- have sold, Escom is a lot less viable than Apple.
-
-
- >Well the PowerAmiga + AmigaOS will eclipse the best the Mac currently offers.
- >You will see a PowerAmiga but you may not see Copland.
- >Even if Copland becomes available it will not rescue Apple from
- >financial demise.
-
- Copland won't be necessary to rescue Apple. PMT will no more save Apple
- than it did OS/2 or the Amiga. Why do you think PowerAmiga + AmigaOS will
- eclipse Apple when 68K Amigacould never eclipse the more expensive 68K Macs?
-
- You do realize without Apple, the PPC chip doesn't hae a chance in the
- market, don't you? Motorola and IBM aren't selling as many PowerPC based
- computers as even PowerComputing. No one else cares about the Amiga besides
- a few Amiga users. While IBM and Motorola both have licenses to produce
- Macs and three other companies already produce Mac compatibles. That's
- not even including Apple's partnership with Sun and Hewlett Packard in
- producing Macintosh Application Environment .
-
-
- >The Amiga already has networking, TCP, and a top-notch scripting language.
- >Apple approached AT with a copy of QuickTime.
-
-
- >IMHO the MacOS is not ahead of the AmigaOS currently.
-
- The kludhes of the AmigaOS is the very thing that has kept it tied to
- archaic hardware. But no one cares solely about the OS. People buy systems.
- THe Macintosh platform - hardware, software, and third party support puts
- the Amiga platform to shame.
-