From: Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM Develops PC Prod
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov 17 1992
Date: 19 Nov 92  11:19:04

> Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
> From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
> Message-ID: BxvyqF.7MA@news.iastate.edu
> Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
>

<deleted article quote about some stupid little toy that IBM whipped up
with simple chips that anyone could get>

>   Commodore can't even develop a screen blanker in 14 weeks!  Now that IBM

What?   Would you like to allaborate on that?  And please, site your source
for this.

>   By comparison, Commodore's response time can almost be measured in
> decades.
> Commodore responded to Apple's announcement of the Mac II by shipping a
> system
> with almost exactly the same capbilities five years later.  And Commodore

Apple  responded  to  Commodore's  release  of  the Amiga 1000 (with colour
graphics  and  a  multitasking  OS) with their first colour machine 2 years
later.

Apple  *has  yet*  to  respond to Commodore's release of a true pre-emptive
multitasking  OS  and  built  in hardware graphics accelerators (going on 7
years  now),  or  the Amiga's price-performance ratio (though the cheap ass
Performas are getting closer)

> responded to the standardization of high-density floppy drives in the
> computer
> industry by finally adopting them on Amiga systems over four years after
> IBM,
> Apple, and every other company in the industry made HD floppies standard on

Never mind that, for the years before that, the Amiga had 880K drives when
everybody else had 800K (Mac) and 720K (IBM, Atari ST).

> nearly all systems.  Commodore still has not developed any CD-ROM drives for
> their A2000, A3000, and A4000 systems, and still has not developed any

Use  one of the several SCSI standard CD-ROMS, stupid.  Get a standard SCSI
CD-ROM  and  hook  it  to  a SCSI port on the Amiga, you MORON.  OK, so the
A4000  doesnt have SCSI - so buy a f*cking SCSI card for it, it STILL costs
less than similar Macs.  And you can then use a *STANDARD SCSI CD-ROM*.

> notebook Amigas to penetrate the exploding notebook PC market.  Commodore
> can
> probably be expected to ship these products on the fourth or fifth
> anniversary
> of the availability of these products by other companies.

You  want  quick  development  times?  How about CDTV?  The CD-I people had
been  yakking  about  CD-I for some years before it came out, and Commodore
(in  a  rare  fit  of  creativity)  threw together the CDTV and released it
*before*  CD-I  (regardless  of how Philips *lies* about "another first" in
the  CD-I  commercials).   Apple *still* has not developed a self contained
multimedia CD-ROM presentation device like CDTV.

> -!-
> | Marc Barrett -MB-  |  email: barrett@iastate.edu
> -!------------------------------------------------

Why don't you go harass the Macintosh people for a while?

Flame  the  Performa  200,  400, and 600's for being the shit that they are
('030s  with  16  bit  memory,  and  on  the  P600 - a 32Mhz CPU on a 16Mhz
motherboard!!  Its actualy SLOWER than an old 25Mhz Mac IIci!!)

 - Dances With Coyotes - World's slowest programer -Given that the universe-
 --- AKA Dances V2.0, Coyote, Magnet, Major, etc ---is infinate, and god is-
 --- Former Net-Lurker - YES, an AMIGA godammit! ---all powerful, would you-
 - If it says SEX and FREE BEER I'll mess with it! -like some toast?       -
 ----------- Annoy Marc Barrett, and THINK!! (make him jealous!) -----------


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