[net.micro.mac] Amiga Reliability and Servant -- The Mac Workbench?

merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (08/20/86)

> During that time, he ran various demos, games, and graphics programs (many
> of them being sold commercially), and the Amiga crashed consistently.
> 
> This was using version 1.2 of Intuition for the first hour, and then going
> back to 1.1 for the second hour. With either version of the OS, the Amiga
> crashed so often that my friend was rather embaressed.
> 
> Maybe you use an unreleased version of Intuition???
> 
> Andrew Shebanow

Come on, the machine hasn't been around that long.  Yes, I've seen the Amiga
crash quite a bit, myself, doing what I consider to be perfectly rational
things.  But, the Amiga has lots of potential, with all it's custom chips and
such.  Personally, I wouldn't go and buy one until the bugs are fixed and
the price goes down (but, then, I don't need a computer anyway.)

Besides, I wouldn't buy a Mac, either.  At least, not with my own money.

By the way, I got a chance to look at Servant yesterday, running on a friend's
Mac Plus (My HyperMac still has the old ROMs, alas).  One of my first comments
on seeing it (Besides "Funky shit, man.") was that Apple has finally got The
Workbench running on the Mac.  Comments?
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"I'll keep holding on..."                          Peter Merchant