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Amiga not a workstation?

    31-Oct-92 16:01:00
Sb: Amiga not a workstation?
Fm: Fernando Cassia 73000,106
To: All
In the Nov. issue, Byte reviewed workstations ("Stalking the ultimate workstation"). Amigas weren't reviewed, but not for Byte bias. According to Byte "Two notable platforms are not represented: Amigas and OS/2 systems. Commodore declined to participate in these applications, citing the Amiga's multimedia orientation" Byte reviewed the following machines: Apple's Mac Quadra 950, Compaq Deskpro 50M, DECStation 5000/120, HP/Apollo 710, IBM RS6000 350, Next's Nextstation, Silicon Graph. Iris Indigo, and Sun's Spacstation2 GX. My questions: – Is the Amiga being positioned to compete with workstations, or not?? – Do you know why CBM declined to participate ?? – Are the A4000 performance worse when compared with a NextStep or Mac Quadra ?? I like to know your oppinions, Regards, 🙂 Fernando. B.A. Argentina 😀