From: dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us (Bowie Poag)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
Date: 20 Jan 93 10:24:02 CST
Organization: Red Oracle Bbs/Network

In article <C0KrLB.91r@andy.bgsu.edu>, jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu (jeremy zawodny)
writes:
>
>As a former Amiga (A500) owner, I'd have to say that the A4000 is very
>impressive!  It does offer a lot of "out of the box" features.  It's got a
>kick-ass multi-tasker, an INTELLIGENT ram disk, great sound, video, and
>lots of other great stuff.
>
>I moved to IBM compatibles because (at the time) the Amiga market
>appreared to be dying and the IBM clone market was just beginning to boom.
>The clone market is still booming, but Amigas have made one hell of a
>comeback from when I sold mine.  BTW, my first hard drive was on my
>amiga... back when Amiga hard drives were just becoming known.
>
>Anyway, enough of my flashback... Someone asked how the IBM world views
>Amigas, so here's my answer:
>
>The Amiga is no more of a game machine than my 386.  They are great for
>graphics, sound, MIDI, and so on.  Commodore deserves a lot of credit for
>what they have turned the amiga into.
>
>Jeremy
>
>-- 
>Jeremy Zawodny, Computer Nerd (student) @ Bowling Green State University
>
>jzawodn@andy.bgsu.edu
>


Agreed. Most Amiga users dont find much reason to badmouth IBMs simply because
theres no need to... as Rodney King put it, "Can we all get along?" .. We, for
the most part, dont consider the MSDOS market a threat. Those of us who are
familliar with the inner-workings of their machines and other systems know
beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Amiga is VASTLY superior at the hardware
level--however it lacks the sheer quantity of software the MSDOS market enjoys.
Thats why products like Bridgeboards came about. To us, Windows 3.1 seems a
fairly modest addept to jump up to the level Amiga users have enjoyed for years
now..Windows is to the MSDOS world what Geos was to the Commodore-64 ..Just a
new way to do the same old thing, and kept the machine alive and kicking for
another few years.

The computer industry moves too quickly to hang onto virtually non-upgradable
architectures..Luckilly, Amiga and Mac users have been blessed with
architectures that are, for the most part, capable of aquiring new technology
as it comes. Unfortunately, MSDOS is not. We have no beef with IBM users--its
just weve got this shiny little jewel that virtually NOBODY knows about.. and
the human thing to do is to assume "Well, if its unpopular, it must suck." ...
Hence the "game machine" image of the Amiga, which is primarrily based on lack
of knowledge. Lets not forget who had the equivalent of a "local bus" FIRST..
:)


Thanks for your comments, too.. The only raving flames I recieved as a result
of my posting the original message were from raving idiot who found it
necessary to send -3- pieces of netmail to me in one day, each one more
illogical (not to mention FUNNY in a pathetic kinda way..) than the next.



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        |o|              I think, therefore I Amiga.              |=|
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        | Douglas Michael Kasten (DMK) | Amiga 2000HD/5 with a tiny |
        |  dmkasten@redorc.chi.il.us   | little 21" Toshiba monitor.|
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