ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) (02/07/89)
In article <593NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes: >But it's not all over. There will be another company down the line that >will produce something as astonding as that first encounter with a 128k >mac was for me. ... Commodore has a lot of maturing to do first, as >they move from selling a hobbyist product to a machine that can be >legitimately called a "serious competitor". Why should 'seriousness' and company maturity have any connection with how wonderful a machine is? For example, the Amiga 1000 was a revolutionary machine, and people bought them. Nobody believed the original Mac was a 'serious competitor', but people bought them. Can you really depend on ANY established manufacturer for innovation and excitment? After all, they are resposible to shareholders and thousands of employees to continue to earn money each quarter. -- - Ralph W. Hyre, Jr. Internet: ralphw@{ius{3,2,1}.,}cs.cmu.edu Phone:(412) CMU-BUGS Amateur Packet Radio: N3FGW@W2XO, or c/o W3VC, CMU Radio Club, Pittsburgh, PA "You can do what you want with my computer, but leave me alone!8-)" --
dvac@drutx.ATT.COM (Daniel Vachon) (02/10/89)
In article <4206@pt.cs.cmu.edu>, ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre) writes: > In article <593NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes: > ... Commodore has a lot of maturing to do first, as > >they move from selling a hobbyist product to a machine that can be > >legitimately called a "serious competitor". > I must agree that Commodore did a great job with the Amiga series. I know several people who switched from Apple //+/e/c's to the Amiga 1000's when they came out. Now I am looking to get me a new toy, and am torn between my loyalty to Apple Computer, Inc (7 years with a ][+/e) and getting their //gs, which in my mind is extremely overpriced, or the Commodore Amiga 2000. I have seen both machines, and am more impressed with what I have seen the Amiga 2000 do over the //gs. And I can get a hard drive and a printer thrown in for the same price as just the //gs with a monitor and 1 drive. And finally, the BIGGIE in my mind, is the fact that the Amiga supports a multi-tasking environment with a 16 bit processor, whereas the //gs is pseudo 16 and no multi-tasking. I am leaning towards an Amiga also because I see Apple really starting to lean away from their old Apple ][ folks that have been very loyal to them for years... I really get the impression that if we don't get //gs's in a year or two, the other //'s will be relics of the past. I guess what I would like to see, if some of you //gs owners could spend a minute or two and type me up a few lines of what you like the most about the //gs, I would really appreciate it. Please e-mail it, and if interest is strong on the net, I will post a summary. Later -Dan Vachon- {!ucbvax}!ihnp4!drutx!dvac