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- David Ingebretsen (dingebre@xmission.xmission.com) wrote:
- : Walter (Jay) Turberville (wturber@primenet.com) wrote:
- : : My point was not that single framing is dead, but that the trend is away from
- : : it. I don't expect it to be the rage next year any more than I expect the
- : : Amiga to be revived in anything like full glory. Few non-linear systems can
- : : beat Beta SP right now. But they are getting better. How close will the
- : : Perception be (it is part of the trend)? The point of the comparison was that
- : : there are fairly predictable trends in both cases. I did not say that single
- : : framing was useless or even a poor way to go to tape. I also did not say that
- : : Amigas were useless or necessarily poor choices as computers. I was merely
- : : saying that there is a predictable trend away from each.
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- : Good point. I did misunderstand a bit what you said. I have dabbled
- : enough in the stock market to know that I'm not very good at predicting
- : trends, even when they seem painfully obvious. There has never been a
- : trend towards the Amiga. It always has and (trend prediction coming :) )
- : probably always will be a very narrow niche market.
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- : : I read the posts as well. ESCOM may be a great company with great vision.
- : : But face it. They have great problems to overcome. I was sincere when I said
- : : that I'd love the original poster to be able to legitimately say "I told you
- : : so." I just don't think it is a reasonable expectation.
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- : I don't know... I just don't know what is or isn't a reasonable
- : expectation anymore. Certainly it is a bit premature to be holding a
- : return of the Amiga party....
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- : David
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