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- Path: coranto.ucs.mun.ca!gnoel
- From: gnoel@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (George Noel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: 20 Jan 1996 14:15:52 GMT
- Organization: Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Sender: gnoel@plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Message-ID: <4dqteo$5ac@coranto.ucs.mun.ca>
- References: <19960116.7BC3530.F0AB@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: plato.ucs.mun.ca
- Summary: Anti-Amiga
- Keywords: All Things Amiga
-
- In article <19960116.7BC3530.F0AB@obscurity.pd.mcs.net>,
- Eric Szulczewski <ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net> wrote:
- >
- >In a message dated 01-10-96 23-00 Gary Alan Peake writes:
- >
- >GP> >What I was referring to in that last
- >GP> >fragment above was your feelings about whether I wanted the Amiga to
- >GP> >survive. I want it to thrive, live, germinate, and grow in the hearts
- >GP> >and workrooms of the world. I wanted to make that perfectly clear not
- >GP> >only to you (because I think you know that), but to the people out
- >GP> >there who might think that because I'm not "loyal" to AT, I'm against
- >GP> >the Amiga. I'm no Marc Barrett or Sinclap, folks.
- >
- >GP> I'd never believe that you were for a second! We just sometimes see
- >GP> different leaves sprouting from the same tree.
- >
- >George Noel pooh-poohed my membership in Team AMIGA because he thinks
- >that I'm anti-Amiga. Hell, I don't even own another box other than my
- >2000! And I don't think that we're seeing different leaves on the same
-
- Ooh.. watch out Byron will be after you next for not having knowledge for
- what you are talking about! :)
-
- You were crapping on the A1200, it is the current lowend Amiga, no
- matter how much you disagree with it, it is an Amiga and it need not
- be put down like you have been doing. If you have no use for it or find
- it lacking, doesn't mean everyone will. Without that A1200 and A4000t,
- the Amiga wouldn'tbe where it is today.
-
- I wasn't saying you were totally anti-amiga but your opinions certainly
- sound like it.
-
- >That's where most of our differences lie in. You're a natural
- >optimist; I'm not only a natural pessimist, but a cynic as well. I
-
- I too am a natural optimist.
-
- >especially concentrate on the marketing. I don't begrudge them the
- >cash they're earning; I just begrudge the fact that they seem to be
- >unwilling to spend money to make money (in the area of marketing, that
- >is; they've been doing it in other areas, including, apparently, R&D).
-
- So do I, so do a lot of people, this was Commodore's fault also. In
- reality, Amiga Technologies have nothing to advertise greatly until they
- release the A1200 Surfer, Amiga-Mac and A1200+ and especially the Power
- Amiga.
-
- -=*George*=-
-
-