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>First, Silicon Graphics is bigger than Commodore. So? You could argue the point that Commodore has many more machines out there then SG (and I'm not just talking the Amiga here)… it still ends up a pointless argument >Second, the Screamer uses SILICON GRAPHICS processors (MIPS R4400's). >Unfortunatly it's not a "Silicon Graphics" processor, it's an independent >processor… thats like saying the Intel 486 is an "IBM" processor, it >isn't…. >Third, the original price quoted for this mythical Amiga was 5000 pounds, >which is about 7500 dollars. For that amount you can get much more than >a base Indy which is only 4995 dollars. And what are you going to do with this "base" machine… very little from what I have been told, an SG users out here tells me that for the machine to REALLY be useful it needs 64megs of RAM… this is taking into account what you would be doing on the machine… of then there is the monitors the Hardrives….. >Fourth, while software may be expensive for Silicon Graphics machines, I >bet their developer base is growing much faster than Commodore's. Plus, >Windows NT now runs on Silicon Graphics machines, so they've got the >zillion cheap Windows programs to run now, also. I've already seen >shrink-wrapped Intel/Windows software running unchanged on a new RISC box >(not from Silicon Graphics) which was using a MIPS processor. EXPENSIVE !!!!!!!!! thats an understatement if ever I saw one !! fine having a $5000 box if you can't affored the other $50,000+ for the software. >Fifth, It would be a mistake to ignore Silicon Graphics as a niche >player. Having said that, I will grant you that the size of the Amiga >installed base is 20 times that of Silicon Graphics! But obviously a lot >of what Silicon Graphics sells are the big expensive (30,000 dollar and >up) boxes. I'm not saying that we can't ignore the SG, yeah it's got it's place in the market, and no doubt it will always have it's devotee's just as the Amiga has. >Sixth and last, if you read the financial reports of Commodore and >Silicon Graphics, you will see that one of the company is overflowing >with "vision" while the other makes excuses about unfriendly exchange >rates adversely affecting performance. This has no relevence at all… so Commodore have a bad year, big deal, how can you equate financial results to "overflowing vision" ! Sorry I'm not trying to put down the SG or lay any claim to this non existant Amiga…. but end of the day each computer has it's own market, and lets leave it at that. Tim On AutoPilot Over Hong Kong