NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/misc/11961

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Subject: Re: Amiga software emulator for PC?
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From: [e-mail]
Date: 28 Jul 92 11:53:07 EDT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Steve Sheldon) writes:
> In <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Marc J. Brown) writes:
>
>>Actually, I have a better parallel.  Imagine trying to spiff up a Yugo
>>to the performance of a Corvette.  You'd have to literally reshape the
>>Yugo's internal structure to that of the Corvette (ignore the practical
>>impossibility of this situation :).  In the end, you've got your Yugo that
>>can be a Corvette, but it would have been better and cheaper if you had
>>simply bought a Corvette and saved yourself the trouble.
>
>  Actually I have a better parallel yet...
>
>  Consider instead that the Amiga is a sleak little european sports car.
> It's popular in Europe, and does sell small numbers in the US, but only
> to a handful of dedicated car collectors.  The little Amiga sports car
> comes in two models, standard and deluxe, but is only available in red,
> and has only one interior option.  The standard model comes with a small
> little 4 cyl. engine, compared to state of the art turbo charged 6 cyl.
> with DOHC and 24 valves which comes with the deluxe model.  Otherwise both
> cars have similar suspension and handle pretty well around the corners.
>
>  And in our story, the PC Clone is a big old early 70's muscle car.
> It comes in a wide variety of colors, has a wide variety of interior
> options, as well as a wide variety of engines.  No two of these really
> looks alike, each has been customized with different interior's, paint
> jobs, engines.  Some of them have flames painted along the side.  Some
> of them have large 440 c.i. 8 cylinder super charged engines, others have
> somewhat mediocre slant-6's.  Of course, the cornering is not great,
> being that the cars are somewhat bulky, and don't have the modern
> suspension systems.
>
>  So the little sports car handles the corners better, but the muscle
> machine can make up for it in the straightaways.
>
>  And don't forget, parts and easier and cheaper to come buy for the old
> 70's muscle car, than for the newer sports car.
>
>  Well, it's not perfect, but it sure sounds a lot more interesting than
> the Yugo vs. Corvette, which seems a bit slanted.
>
>>BTW, don't you think it's a bit ironic that, in THIS country anyways, a
>>computer's degree of capability is inversely proportional to its popularity?
>>It takes a place like Europe to assure me that humans as a whole aren't
>>staggeringly soft in the head.
>
>  I'm not quite sure I caught that right.  Don't you mean that in this country
> (US) a computer's degree of capability is proportional to it's popularity?
>
>  I would attribute this to the fact that the more popular a computer is the
> more software and hardware options you'll have available, thus making it
> easier to do things with the computer == capability.
>
>

Ah even better yet.....

    There are two Arangutans; one who's very well endowded, the other who
just doesn't have what it takes.  They go walking through the forest one day
and happen upon a female who is in heat.  Her scent immediately sparks a
reaction from our two gorillas oops arangutans excuse me, but back to our
story, anyway.......
    Nuf said analogies are getting a bit weird, lets stick to real
comparisons eh?  (Just a little comic distraction |B->   )