Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watmum.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watmum!cdshaw From: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.micro Subject: Re: Amiga vs Mac Message-ID: <255@watmum.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 21:39:37 EDT Article-I.D.: watmum.255 Posted: Fri Aug 16 21:39:37 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 05:27:05 EDT References: <8883@ritcv.UUCP> <26700024@inmet.UUCP> <3241@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Reply-To: cdshaw@watmum.UUCP (Chris Shaw) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 41 Xref: watmath net.micro.mac:2397 net.micro:11494 In article <3241> eric@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Eric Lavitsky) writes: >In article <26700024@inmet.UUCP>, bhyde@inmet.UUCP writes: >> >> "The Amiga? That's the machine that one ups the MacIntosh right >> 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? > >Eric This is a bogus comparison. At its official release date, nobody had seen a Mac except for a few developers. (I think). At the Amiga's release, thousands of people will have seen it, touched it, etc. The "real release" in September is a marketing ploy designed to get the Amiga all the advance publicity one could want. The fact that Byte had an article in August indicates (given publishing deadlines and a lack of a "last minute" air to Byte's reporting) that the machine could just have easily been released in May or June. Of course, that would mean that the public would discover bugs galore in the software, and Commodore would have to promise up a storm about forth- coming software. I'm not saying that this is all a bad thing, this ploy of Commodore's. In fact it's quite intelligent. I just wish that the public at large (or at Usenet in this case) would not fall into the trap of making nonsense comparisons. Face it, Apple won this race in February 1984. No matter how you slice it, the Mac has a humongous head start, and a huge installed user base. No nonsense about number-of-software-packages-at-release is going to change the fact that the Mac has (at least) an order of magnitude more packages now than either the ST or Amiga. And no, I don't own a Mac. Chris Shaw watmath!watmum!cdshaw or cdshaw@watmath University of Waterloo In doubt? Eat hot high-speed death -- the experts' choice in gastric vileness !