Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site amdcad.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!gatech!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro Subject: Re: Amiga vs Mac Message-ID: <2643@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 18:06:16 EDT Article-I.D.: amdcad.2643 Posted: Wed Aug 14 18:06:16 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:23:03 EDT References: <8883@ritcv.UUCP> <26700024@inmet.UUCP> <3241@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: AMD, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 27 Xref: linus net.micro.mac:2348 net.micro:10228 In article <3241@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky) writes: >In article <26700024@inmet.UUCP>, bhyde@inmet.UUCP writes: >> >> color, even has less software than the Mac did when it was introduced." >> ben hyde, cambridge > >Eh?, you'd better get your facts straight. The Amiga will have 20+ >packages available upon release - I've seen many of them. How many >did the Mac have? 2...3? All I can remember are MacPaint and MacWrite - >care to refresh my memory as to the other 20? > I have to agree with both of them. I saw over 20 packages for the Mac prior to announcement day. I saw 3 released within a month of announcement day. There is a long way between packages seen before release and packages people will put their name on./ -- Jim Budler Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (408) 749-5806 UUCPnet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb Compuserve: 72415,1200 "... Don't sue me, I'm just the piano player!...."