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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.142837.10108@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <91MAR12.134551@ducvax.auburn.edu> <1991Mar13.131004.9647@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 14:28:37 GMT

In article <1991Mar13.221028.8703@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>   What happens if you apply the exact same reasoning to Commodore?
> You could say "The last innovative product to come out of Commodore was
> the original Amiga.  What have they done since then that wasn't just
> putting faster chips in the same basic box?"

OK, let's grant that point. That means that Commodore hasn't come out with
an innovative product in 5 years. Apple hasn't come out with one in 7 years.
IBM hasn't come out with one in... hmmm... I seem to have run out of fingers.

>   One could argue that Apple has been more innovative than Commodore
> over the last 5 years. Apple started off with a monochrome, one-size
> monitor non-expandable system. Since then they've added things

... that they should have had in the first place. And they have resources
most companies only dream of.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
