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From: trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
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Date: 28 Sep 88 12:13:51 GMT
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In article <661@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
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>...
>I contended that what Amiga owners
>really wanted was a more powerful Amiga machine, ie more colors in
>normal res-modes and higher resolution with NO INTERLACE. Someone
>replied with a letter that IBM compatibility is a MUST, citing a
>Macintosh magazine as proof. So what is it Amiga owners? Do you want a
>more powerful Amiga or IBM compatibility?
Given the expense, neither.
However, given some extra cash to throw around, I'd sooner see a more
powerful Amiga with "a software emulator that can run IBM software, providing
IBM compatibility for under $100." (Maybe paraphrased, but how many others
of the early A1000 crowd heard something similar to this in Amiga's infancy?)
I could care less if the IBM software runs 1/2 as fast as it could with
special hardware.
Of course, it would have been nice if the Amiga had been designed with a
little more compatibility with off-the-shelf hardware products, e.g. hard
disks, tape drives, ...
> Moral to this story: Build a better computer machine, and the
> world will beat a path to your door
> (especially if the machine is cheaper)
Amended moral: Build a better computer machine, and the world will
snub it until it's obsolete and IBM puts it in a PC.
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