On Wednesday 28 December 2005 21:46, DJ wrote: > On Wednesday 28 December 2005 16:19, Dinesh Shah wrote: > > Even though Apple was great technology, IBM PC and Microsoft took > > the market. Why? Because, despite many problems, people show > > value in buying PC over MAC. > > Apologize to poke my nose into this discussion but AFAICR,
This is a public list and is intended for people to poke their noses and air their opinions. You will have to apologise for not poking your nose ;-) ( ok the rest of u that was joke - dont send 700-3 apology mails). > Amiga was a great technology. They were making color screens, video > editing while Apple was struggling with monochrome video... > Amiga failed because of bad decisions, bad campaigning, bad > advertisments. Amiga did not fail it has morphed into the ARM one of the great successes in the small footprint 32 bit processors. More than those i think they were too early to market. One of the Amiga machines was faster running interpreted basic than the latest IBM PC running assembly in a Byte mag bench mark. > People are stupid. Yea i suppose so - particularly when they dont buy your hot new product. -- rgds jtd -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
