From: laire@uni-paderborn.de (Ralph Schmidt)
Subject: Re: A4000 - Early Impressions = Personal Attacks now....
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:42:16 GMT

skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:

>In article <1992Sep14.181453.19965@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) whines:
>>In article <1992Sep14.074935.17241@gbrmpa.gov.au> matt@gbrmpa.gov.au (Matt) writes:
>>>In article <1992Sep14.064710.19465@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) moans:
>>>>
>>>>If Commodore had put a 1280x960 non-interlaced monochrome or limited-color
>>>>mode into the AGA chipset, and had put SCSI on the motherboard, the A4000
>>>>would have made a damn nice low-end machine.
>>>
>>>Even if C= had've included these, you'd still be whinging about something
>>>else.
>>
>>I am not whining, I'm simply stating a fact.  

>HA!  You have done nothing but whine, bitch, moan, cry, and every other
>possible form of complaint.  Face it, you're a whining little geek with
>nothing to do but sit around on your fat-ass and bellyache about any and
>every thing that C= does.  As for facts, your posts are so full of your
>bullshit complaints that no one takes you seriously.
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>Get a life you fucking goob.
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>>With a hi-res mode, Commodore could have competed very well in the low-end 
>>UNIX market.  Without it, this market is basically closed to them, for all 
>>practical purposes.

>What low-end UNIX market?  Since you claim to know so many facts, tell
>us how many UNIX boxes shipped last year.  Most of the sales of UNIX boxes
>are to scientific and educational institutions and a few of the bigger
>companies.  Do you really think that the average business is going to buy
>a UNIX box over a PC just to run business software?  If you do, you are an
>even bigger idiot than you make yourself out to be.
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>>>>As it is, by time you've added enough hardware to the A4000 to make it
>>>>usable as a UNIX workstation (a video card and SCSI card, in addition to 
>>>the rest mentioned above), Commdore's costs for the system make it 
>>>>impossible for them to undercut anybody in the low-end UNIX workstation 
>>>>market.
>>>
>>>Since when has it been their intention to compete directly with the Unix
>>>market ????
>>
>>With better graphics hardware and on-board SCSI, they could have.  

>So what if they did?  You wouldn't buy one.  Hell, if they shipped an Amiga
>with graphics on par with an SGI box and a SCSI subsytem with its own 040
>and 16M cache for $1000, you'd find something to bitch about.

>You are such an asshole.
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>>Apparently Commodore agrees that they have no chance in the Unix market now,
>>because they do not seem to have any plans for it whatsoever.

>Why bother with the UNIX market?  They aren't going to be able to compete
>with Sun, HP, DEC, SGI, and the others any better than Apple can.  You
>bitch about the limited R&D budget, then you say that they should be working
>on UNIX.  What is your problem dickhead?

Skip, you can think about MB what you want but i think it's not
fair to attack him in such personal way.....

Regards...

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Ralph Schmidt                                            laire@uni-paderborn.de
University of Paderborn (Germany)