Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!gatech!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!mikes 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) Organization: Motorola Inc., Austin Tx. Lines: 36 In article <661@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes: > >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 ...!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!mikes oakhill!mikes@cs.utexas.edu