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- From: secrd2@gate.net
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 13:26:03 GMT
- Organization: CyberGate, Inc.
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- > someone wrote:
- > > ...and Viscorp has turned off the respirator.
-
- and Carl Sassenrath wrote:
- > Excuse me for commenting on this thread, but that doesn't make a whole lot
- > of sense, does it? Why spend millions of dollars for a dead computer?
- > It would have been much easier for VIScorp to build a PC variant set-top
- > box, but they wanted the small, cool apps that run on the Amiga. The
- > whole point to using the Amiga in the box was to bring content and give a
- > market to software developers that will put food on their tables. It's a
- > synergy kind of thing. Neither can do it alone.
-
-
- I think we should all be happy that the Amiga is getting picked up at all. Things could be much worse. In this
- day and age of Win95 hysteria, the Amiga and all it's technology could be ending up in a land fill. Not only is
- Ami getting picked up for continued life, but by none other than Carl Sassenrath and crew ( for those of you
- who haven't been around long, this is the guy who designed the multitasking EXEC kernel in your Amigas...
- Thanks Carl, Great Job!) I figure Carl probably has a good idea of how to best apply Ami's talents.
-
- I think we should all be lending moral support by being positive about this. We aren't going to help the Amiga's
- situation by perpetuating the "rats jumping from a sinking ship" syndrome.
-
- So, I'm behind you Carl. I've been using Amigas since 1985 and have had quite a few of them. I use the Mac
- and Win95 machines on a regular basis as a hardware and software designer, and I can say honestly that there
- are still quite a number of things the Amiga does better that either of these systems.
-
- Good luck!!!!!
-
- Long live the Amiga...the last bastion of computer freedom in the known world
-
- Scott Tribbey
- secrd2@gate.net
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