Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple... Keywords: Sad Message-ID: <64123@sun.uucp> Date: 14 Aug 88 07:14:33 GMT References: <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 25 In article <2160@ssc-vax.UUCP> dmg@ssc-vax.UUCP (David Geary) writes: >3) The Amiga is loosing ground to the new IBM's and the Mac II. You make a very naive statement here. For the Amiga to lose ground to the Mac II and the 386 clones they have to be in the same league. What you fail to realize is THESE ARE NOT COMPARABLE SYSTEMS. Period, by any measure the stock Amiga is less powerful than a 32 bit 16 - 25Mhz machine. Are we suprised? Would you say that the Mazda RX-7 is losing market share to the Porches and Ferraris? No, you wouldn't even bother comparing them ? The fact that people (including Mac II and PS/2 model 80 owners) *feel the need* to compare them should give you and indication of what we have always realized. The Amiga is the best computer in it's class. You will also notice that no one compares the Atari ST to the Mac II, or the '386 boxes. Illuminating no? So if Commodore decides to build a machine in the same league as the Mac II and the '386 boxes they probably call it the Amiga 3000 and build in an '030 and with fast 32 bit RAM. Until then, comparing the stock Amiga 2000 is simply flattery as far as I am concerned. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.