From: zarthac@bradley.edu (Matthew Simmons)
Subject: Re: message to local dealers
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:54:49 GMT
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Bruce Albrecht (bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG) wrote:
: In article <C0x6AI.xr@boi.hp.com> blj@fc.hp.com (Bruce Johnson) writes:
: >It seems to me that Commodore still has a market for the Amiga,  but that
: >market does not include buisiness.  The main market seems to be the $400 to
: >$1200 system with good graphics and sound.  Nothing can touch the Amiga in
: >that price range.  Commodore can sell A3000 and A4000 machines as an upgrade
: >to prior users,  but I don't see many sales to 1st time Commodore buyers.  
: >IMHO,  there are several reasons the Amiga can't crack the buisiness market.
: >
: >1. The OS was designed to efficient,  at the expense of robustness.  In order
: >to make the multitasking work fast,  task isolation got thrown out the window.
: How is this different from a Mac running MultiFinder, or a PC running Windows?

Try running MultiFinder on a 68000 or Windows on a 286... You'll see where the
efficiency lives... (hint: it's in westchester...)

: It's not, and those two are the most common business app machines.  AmigaDOS
: is not Unix, but it doesn't take Unix to make a machine a reliable business
: machine.  Individual applications tend to be more robust than they used to be,
: mostly because more developers are using tools like Enforcer and MungWall to
: catch the obvious stuff.

: >4. Unreliable hardware.  I was all set to buy an A3000 a year ago,  but at a
: >users group meeting I talked to somebody who had one.  " Oh it's great", he 
: >said,  " I had to return the 1st one,  but this one is working fine... except
: >for the monitor.  The dealer should have one next week though".  Then he 
: >started up a program and guru'ed.  Things still aren't any better,  look at
: >all the problems with overheating 4000's and 1200's blowing video chips.

: I don't think it's especially unreliable.  People don't typically post that
: there machine is working great, so you only hear about the problems.  The A4000
: and A1200 are new machines, and new machines tend to be more susceptiable to
: quality problems than machines that have been produced for 6 months or more.
: For what it's worth, I had a hard drive die on my PC at work a month after I
: got it.  Two years ago, a consultant was telling me about his experiences with
: a very reputable PC Clone manufacturer where over 20% of the machines received
: directly from the factory were DOA.

: --
: bruce@zuhause.mn.org
: Youth is wasted on the young.


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