#New Amiga from SGI!
24-Jul-93 04:57:07
Sb: #107967-#New Amiga from SGI!
Fm: Brian Bartlett 72037,570
To: Richard S. Rose,M.D. 73106,1560
Richard,
I seem to remember a certain machine that cost $1995 with only _one_
floppy drive, 256K RAM (expandable to 512K), and a questionable, at best,
paint program. You had to pay _significantly_ more for an extremely buggy
compiler and a word processing program, also buggy, as was the
documentation. The machine, my '85 Amiga 1000.
Frankly, anytime you are on the 'bleeding edge' you should expect to
pay a price, but I have serious questions on your evaluation of the
"minimum" configuration, again harkening back to my experience with
another introductory machine. I do page layout here on a 2.5 MB machine
feeding a laser printer, an impossibility to some. 96 MB??? Sheesh! I
think you will find that this machine will enter a particular niche which
will attract quality developers that are not satisfied with the current
status quo on pricing.
Just my two cents.
Brian