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In article <sheldon.726028193@pv141b.vincent.iastate.edu> sheldon@iastate.edu (Steve Sheldon) writes:
> While an '040 gives it some horsepower, and so does the bus architecture. 

	Just thought i'd chime in as another Amiga user that jumped
ship. I got my 1000 in 1986, and in fact it was the machine I cut my
teeth programming on. I didn't have much problem finding application
development tools for it(Manx C was fairly spiffy for its time), and the
ease of programming with windows was a godsend compared to the mac. I
used to brag to my friends that the Amiga was "Twice the power of a PC
for half the price".

	That was 1986. Times have changed.

	With every new release of the OS and new hardware I became more
and more beleagured by Commodore not keeping up technologically. In 1987
we were hearing wonderful things about the "Ranger", with it's
sophisitcated 24-bit graphics and memory-protection. By the time I
finally gave up on the Amiga, the top of the line machine(the 3000) didn't
support memory protection(sorry, derivitives of GOMF don't cut the
mustard), and to make matters worse, the graphics weren't much better
than the 1000(EHB standard, and a flicker fixer).

	Like many other people I know, the evolutionary(not
revolutionary) development efforts by Commodore, combined with PC's
becoming a commodity item, finally broke the camels back and I bought a
PC with comparable horsepower to a 3000, for half the price. [Yes, I
know 3000's are getting cleared out now, but i'm talking 2 years ago
even _with_ the educational discount] Since then the situation has only
gotten worse. Now when friends ask why I don't have an Amiga anymore,
the response is, "It's half the computer, at twice the price". :-(

	There you have it. The original poster wanted to know what PC
users think of the state of Amiga's, well i've been on both sides of the
fence extensively. I have to agree with the original developers of the
Amiga. They held a funeral for the Amiga(casket and all) once they
realized what Commodore was going to do with their wonderful machine.

						Regards,
							Ken

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