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From: mikes@oakhill.UUCP (Mike Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
Message-ID: <1521@oakhill.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 88 14:30:18 GMT
References: <661@wsccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: oakhill!mikes@cs.utexas.edu (Mike Schultz)
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In article <661@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
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>Macintosh magazine as proof.  So what is it Amiga owners?  Do you want a
>more powerful Amiga or IBM compatibility?  

Well, I hate to rain on your parade, but as a matter of fact I did buy my
Amiga 2000 because of the Bridgeboard.  

I had been impressed by the Amiga's software (I'm a system's programmer, 
multitasking is a requirement) but the Amiga 1000 wasn't enough to make me
go out and buy one.

When I read about the Amiga 2000 in Byte, the things that impressed me were the
internal expansion capabilities and the fact that I could buy the Bridgeboard
and get access to ALL THAT MS-DOS SOFTWARE.

Now, don't get me wrong.  I don't like the IBM-PC, I detest MS-DOS as an 
operating system (looks more like a kernel to me) and the Intel CPUs design
are kludges based on past kludges.  But I can't ignore all the software!

So now I get to have my cake and eat it too.

You may be right that improved graphics may be a good thing, but I spend 
all day looking at a Wyse-60 connected to a System V Unix machine, so
at night my Amiga's screen looks real good.

At any rate, I know my vote doesn't count for much, as I am not your typical
user, but you did ask for it.

Would you like to know what I'd really like to see next?  A 68020 (68030) board
running Unix in a window on my Amiga!  (Some of us can't keep from taking 
work home.)

Mike Schultz
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