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- 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
- Message-ID: <n0ee1t@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 11:19:04
- Lines: 78
-
- > 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!) -----------
-
-
- --- Maximus 2.00
-