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- From: Glenn Saunders <krishna@primenet.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 10 Mar 1996 02:46:01 -0700
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- The mortal Tim Russell wrote:
- : we do, I'm sure. But asking them to TOTALLY REDESIGN the Amiga's chipset
- : RIGHT NOW is INSANE! IF you want these things, you're going to have to
- : prove to AT that there are people who still support the Amiga. That means
- : not hesitating at every little bit of vaporware you hear about. It means
- : that people have to support AT. We can't just expect them to throw
-
- There is nothing in the new Amigas except maybe what little tweaks there
- are in OS 3.2, to warrant purchasing a new one as opposed to expanding an
- existing machine. My ancient A2500 040/28 will be faster than these new
- machines, and the gfx will be better and faster if I add a GFX card. Plus
- my machine has active ISA and Zorro 2 slots. There is nothing for even
- staunch Amigaphiles to get excited about!
-
- Escom knew when they bought the Amiga that they were faced with a race
- against time. The technology is ALL outdated today except for the OS.
- And the entire processor family is now too slow so they are faced with
- having to port the OS. So they have the patents to machines which are
- practically worthless as far as new production is concerned. The only
- market that really NEEDS new Amigas is the Toaster/Flyer crowd. Other
- than that, the existing Amiga userbase can expand on existing machines.
- They will simply not sell to new buyers with the given technology. The
- specs are way too slow even though you can be quite productive. A lot of
- people like to do CPU-critical work these days, raytracing, etc... and
- they don't like paying premium for a CPU that has a fraction of the
- horsepower of an equivalent on another platform.
-
- Once Motorola gave up on the 68K line I was perfectly aware that the
- Amiga was pretty much doomed as we know it. There is no R&D panacea that
- can stave off the obsolescence of the pre-PPC machines. The 060 isn't
- enough, and even the 060 has poor compiler/developer support, not to
- mention it is too expensive to use as a stock processor, and in too small
- quantities.
-
- The question should not be, how will AT fare with the new models; the
- question will be, will AT stick with the Amiga long enough to complete
- the PPC machines while the 68K machines die a horrible death. Because I
- see no way these machines are going to sell.
-
- This is a test of AT's willingness to take a painful loss between now and
- the debut of the PPC machines. And those PPC machines BETTER be PReP
- compliant because if the Amiga market totally dries up by then, those
- machines will have to be clones and macs first, and Amigas second. At
- least to start out.
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