elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) (08/14/88)
In message <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP>, dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) says: > However, the fact remains that the Amiga is loosing ground. The huge >gap (technically speaking) between the Amiga and "the rest" is closing. > The only thing looking sad are the graphics, which were great compared to Mac or EGA, but compared to VGA or Mac II(8-bit).... The Amiga still does better animations. But people with an AT-clone or a Mac II don't buy their computer to do animations. They do desktop publishing, or CAD, or any number of things for which the Amiga display is a limitation... -- Eric Lee Green ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg Snail Mail P.O. Box 92191 Lafayette, LA 70509 MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) (08/19/88)
In article <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP>, dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes: > > 1) Mac II is made by Apple. > 2) Because of 1) alone, it can be expected to do quite well. Now, wait a minute, we as users (and the free fanatical advertisers for CBM) have a great say in the future of the Amiga. After all Apple went through the same rough time introducing their "new" OS and it finally caught on. We ought to be able to do the same. Commodore has two ways to go, either really goose up the desk top video stuff so that the Amiga N000 isn't really useful to hacker types (except for video hackers) or go complete compatability with IBM _and_ MAC. Business types (and me too for that matter) like to be able to use their old hardware and not have much hassle with compatibility issues. Let's face facts Amiga is cheap compared to these other systems, its graphics are quite good, but IBM with proper HW and MAC II are better in some areas. Amigas networking with MAC II's for a good cheap graphic environment would be ideal for some applications. -- ________________________________________ This space would have been | Mike Davis LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK | ihnp4!ihlpm!jmdavis had I not written in it. |_________________________
keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle) (08/23/88)
In article <2247@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
.Let's face facts Amiga is cheap compared to these other systems, its
.graphics are quite good, but IBM with proper HW and MAC II are better
.in some areas. Amigas networking with MAC II's for a good cheap graphic
.environment would be ideal for some applications.
One of the nicest things about the Amiga is that it wasn't designed to
carry 5 years worth of single-tasking HISTORY around with it, and it
uses a processor that isn't carrying 5 GENERATIONS of backward
compatibility around with it.
Keith Doyle
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