From: marv@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Marv Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Byte's Amiga 4000 review...
Date: 11 Jan 93 03:58:38 GMT
Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN.

papresco@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
>>>REXX.  THEY were multitasking before you were born.  So what in OS/2
>>>was "ripped off" of the Amiga?
>>
>>How long have they had a popular widely available multitasking OS for the
>>Intel architecture?  As for being ripped off, ask the software engineers
>>who worked on OS/2 about the Amigas in their labs...
>
>What is it that you think is in OS/2 that wasn't invented (probably by
>IBM) long, long before the Amiga?  Just because there hasn't been a
>"widely available multitasking OS for the Intel architecture" doesn't
>mean that multitasking originated with the Amiga.  If the Amiga had
>never existed, OS/2 would have been multitasking in competition with
>Windows, NeXT, SysVR4.2, Solaris, NT and VMS.
>
>Or did they ALL steal the concept from the Amiga.
>
>As to REXX...It's not a very nice language anyways.  The only reason
>IBM includes it is because ALL of their operating systems do.  I would
>prefer if they would replace it with Perl or something.  It was by no
>means "borrowed" from the Amiga.
>
>>No, but you can get an A1200 for around $600 that is comparable to 486sx
>>SVGA systems for twice the price.
>
>An SVGA 486 system without hard drive would be the same price as the
>$600.00 A1200.  Except you would have a real CPU.  For kicks you could
>throw in a soundboard, for $250.00 that has a 68000 on it.  No, the
>Amiga does NOT have a patent on coprocessing.  There are cheap
>soundboards for the PC that have as much CPU power as the A600!
>
>>Paul, why are you worried about the Amiga?  You obviously like the Clones,
>>so use them and be happy with them.  No one here cares what machine you use
>>and your arguments are simply ignored by most people.  Are you like many 
>>others who have sold their Amigas and bought Clones?  Aren't you happy with
>>it?  Why do you read and post to the Amiga groups?  Worried that you might
>>have made the wrong decision?  Or are you an MB wannabe?
>
>I spend time here combatting inaccuracies like 486s 
>that sell for twice the price of A1200.  Check out this month's
>computer shopper.  486s for <$1000.00 WITH hard drive AND monitor!
>Take out the hard drive and monitor, and you are at A1200 price!
>
>This is of course  a ridiculous comparison.  A 486sx with no hard drive
>is useless, and an A1200 without hard drive is pretty damn near useless
>too.  It is excellent competiton for a super nintendo, though.
>
>I also hang out here for kicks watching the Amiga users defect one by
>one.

WOW!!! you mean I can buy a 486 for $1,000!!!! Where's my checkbook!! huh what
was that? you mean the "SVGA" card has only 512K?? ah so what so I won't look
at those big weenie gifs! ok where is my checkbook... lets see here it is! uh
what was that? the monitor that comes with it has a .38 dot pitch?... ah err
thats ok! i like counting the pixels in fonts.... now where is that pen...huh
you must be kidding.... A 16 bit bus? hmm even that "Super Nintendo competitor
" Amiga 1200 has a 32 bit bus.... oh well i can live without that too!... and
you said i would ONLY have to pay another $250 for that sound board with the
68000?... damn pen is out of ink... where is that other one!... I need HOW
much more memory to be able to Multitask? 6 MORE MEG??? what??? ... What do
you mean there are no file standards?... Ah and screw the multitasking
anyway!!! I'LL NEVER USE IT!!! lets see that's 1 , 0 0 0 huh what do you mean
it only has a 90 day warranty?.......................


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