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From: bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu (Blair MacIntyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Next Amiga system
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Date: 27 Sep 88 14:01:02 GMT
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In article <661@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
>	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)

No, they won't.

Tell me, why do so many Corporations buy IBM hardware ( personal computers,
not IBM's *real* computers ... ) when you can get better, cheaper fully
compatible clones????  

Because it has the three magic letters:
	I B M

As my boss at a job I had a couple of years ago told me, "No one ever got
fired for buying IBM".  

Better machines, in terms of personal computers, will only sell to individuals,
developers, small business, hackers, musicians, etc ... small, specialized
markets.  Computer preference is more a matter of just that - preference and
prejudice - than anything else.  I am prejudiced against IBM:  I admit it, and
even if they did come out with a truely amazing machine, which I doubt they
ever will :-) ( talking micros, here ), I don't know if I'd buy it.  Why?
I don't like IBM.  

It's called human nature, and it ain't logical.
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= Mr. Blair MacIntyre (bmacintyre@watsol.waterloo.edu)                        =
= Using computers is like parachuting ... if you don't get it the first time, =
= chances are you won't try it again.                                         =