🚀 go-pugleaf

I hesitate to get involved in this, but here goes...

arctngnt@amiganet.chi.il.us (Bowie J Poag) writes:

    The AMiga hasnt dominated the market for several reasons: For one,
    the  public is generally ignorant. IBM's are obviously inferior to
    both  NeXT, Amiga, and Mac. But people buy them anyways. FOr every
    idiot who makes a bad decision, and finds merit in it, hell go off
    and  tell someone else to do the same.. That other person, being a
    moron  as  well,  is lead to believe that IBM is the one and only.
    Wrong.

No  --  you  are  wrong. The problem has been with the parent company,
Commodore  Business  Machines.  The  technology is great, and has been
great, for six years. However, CBM has not nurtured the  machine,  and
has in fact created the rut into which the Amiga has languished.

There were many people working for the success of the Amiga for years,
some of them doing Multimedia (myself included). Over time  developers
got frustrated at the antics and  lack  of  support  from  the  parent
company for their own machine. Hence most all of  the  original  Amiga
zealots  and supporters have changed over the years, replaced by those
that know nothing of the history of the machine - and why  it's  where
it is today.

There continue to be waves of Amiga zealots, and there should  be  for
the capability of the machine. However you will grow up and understand
why  the  NeXT  has  a  true chance of success for Multimedia, and the
Amiga doesn't. "Capability" and "potential" don't make the machine  --
success is a lot more complex than mere technical prowess and facts.


    So the prepetual cycle of ignorance continues to this day. 

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    								As for NeXT, Ive
    never used one to any lengthy degree, but I can say that its overpriced, and
    undersupported. Dosent take a BS in Comp Sci to figure THAT out.. Hell, my mom
    could tell you NeXT's werent worth it.

Well, your statement is self descriptive - it would seem.. :-)

    My advice to you is to pick up an Amiga sometimes. You seem ill-informed. Theh
    mabye youll stop your >>>>>NeXT/Amiga whining.

There are plenty of used ones available on the network.. I sold mine for $200.

BTW -- there are plenty of spell checkers on non-Amiga computers..

-Jim



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 -Jim Becker / jcb@ncd.com   /   Network Computing Devices, Inc. (NCD)