From: dtaylor@garnet.acns.fsu.edu (Douglas Taylor)
Subject: Re: HELP--AMIGA OR IBM PC CLONE?
Organization: Florida State University
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 93 19:00:10 GMT

In article <1993Jan10.043322.7254@src4src.linet.org> scottw@src4src.linet.org (Scott Weintraub) writes:
>First off, I want to say that about a week ago, I ordered my Gateway after
>being a loyal Amiga advocate for many years.  Guys, they've caught up.  A
>few months ago, we all agreed that HAM didn't cut it anymore and were pretty
>excited about the AGA chipset which I can now say *STILL* doesn't cut it.

 (a bunch of neurotic self-justification deleted)

 Mister Weintraub makes a decent case for buying an IBM over an Amiga on a
	strictly monetary base; but, if computer sales were based solely on
	cost accounting, then the Mac would have been a failure from day one.

 What Mr. Weintraub fails to consider is that a large portion of the Amiga 
	market is, for the most part, former Amiga users and other CBM related
	computer (I came onto Amiga after a C=128D); he fails to take that into
	account when he speaks of buying an IBM and/or Amiga.  Also, there is
	the USE to which computer will be put - if one is willing to stay with-
	in the rather staid boundaries of IBM computing, then his choice is
	relatively appropriate; however, if one is more interested in slightly
	more exotic applications, then it becomes more questionable - for 
	example, I am in the Modern Languages Department at Florida State,
	where I can honestly say that, quite factually, for international 
	development, the IBM sucks.  However, I cannot afford to buy a Mac;
	so, instead, I stay with hy heart's desire, the Amiga, and buy emul-
	ators (hardware and software, your choice) for generally less than
	a similar computer would cost.  Hence, I can use my rather deft
	facility with the Amiga side (Mister Weintraub will more likely than not
	have to spend time learning Windows effectively...), flip over to the 
	IBM emulator (I use Vortex's board), make a few adjustments to the 
	rather mundane program (right now, Lotus 1-2-3, 2.4), and flip back;
	after that, I can either save my data to disk, and boot up Amax (which
	I own), or with the mythical, theoretical workig EMPLANT, I can simply
	flip over to that, too...

 But, again, it allboils down to personal preference - would be willing to pay
	that extra couple of hundred dollars to own a machine that I KNOW I
	love and can work effectively with, than to plunge my money into an
	IBM, which I am certain I will never like, and will hardly use; the 
	other choice is the Mac, which has many programs in my language 
	(russian), but costs quite literally, thousands more than I am willing
	to pay (well, there are the Performa computers... so maybe just a few
	hundred...)

>
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