Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!brl-adm!umd5!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucdcsp!schwager From: schwager@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Questions about Amiga future Message-ID: <75500003@uiucdcsp> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 16:23:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcsp.75500003 Posted: Mon Dec 7 16:23:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 10:42:27 EST References: <2908@cbmvax.UUCP> Lines: 34 Nf-ID: #R:cbmvax.UUCP:2908:uiucdcsp:75500003:000:1973 Nf-From: uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu!schwager Dec 7 15:23:00 1987 > > > Am I being hopelessly optimistic? CA leapfrogged everyone's PC when they > > introduced the Amiga 1000. I'm considering upgrading to a 2000, but quite > > frankly, unless I think CA has a committment to improving their machines > > and keeping up with the rest of the world, I'll just use it until it gets > > old and then go with a machine that is going to be able to keep up. > Hmmm... maybe it's just me, I dunno. The way I see it, C-A comes out with the A1000 in 1985, moving ahead of the state of the art in low-cost computers. Now two years later, they come out with 1) the same machine priced low enough so that (my prediction) it becomes the Commodore 64 of the late 80s, and 2) An (arguably) upgraded, easily expandable version of the same machine with the features designed to make it a serious contender in the Business and Professional fields (a sad but necessary step, adding the PC compatibility). Meanwhile, IBM and Apple come out with improved machines that reflect the state of the art. I've got no problem with that, since the next machine Commodore comes out with, if it's any improvement at all on the Amigas we have now, will be another jump *ahead* in the state-of-the-art. I expect that "the machine that is going to be able to keep up" will be made by Commodore. I'm talking personal computing here, by the way- heck, if I had my druthers, I'd have a Sun 3, or maybe an Apollo... or wait, Cray, yeah- that's the ticket! A Cray, yeah.... I chuckle every time I demo my $600 micro to my computing friends... ...window to background, window to foreground, xmodem... receive binary... begin download, *click* window to background, "Hey, what are you doin?!" "Well, this ain't no PC fer crissakes! I'm not going to sit and wait for that thing to finish when I can do something else (sly grin)... wanna see a cool demo? Play a game, perhaps?" -mike schwager -- {ihnp4,convex,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!schwager schwager%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa