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- From: dons@olympus.net (Don Schmelling)
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- Subject: Re: Walker vs. the $999 7200/75 w/4xCD!
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- Date: Thu, 4 Apr 96 08:30:59 PST
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- Karl Thomas (kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- You may have a valid point. But I purchased my A1200 after Commodore
- had gone under and before Escom bought the remains of Commodore
- and created AT. I did not buy an Amiga because of the viability of
- the platform.
-
- :
- : >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?
-
- I am coming from a performance standpoint and I believe that you are
- coming from a standpoint of total sales.
- :
- : You do realize without Apple, the PPC chip doesn't hae a chance in the
-
- Maybee, maybee not. It really is a bit early to tell.
- I think Motorola will produce the chips if they can make money.
-
- : 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.
-
- Here we just plain disagree.
-
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