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- From: ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net (Eric Szulczewski)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: Wed, 3 Jan 96 18:39:25 CST
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- In a message dated 01-01-96 17-20 Gary Alan Peake writes:
-
- GP> >Well, hell has just frozen over. I can't argue with anything Poag said
- GP> >on this one. When the specs come out for the 1300, let's see Gary
- GP> >Peake and all the AT apologists on here defend them if they're anything
- GP> >like what's described.
-
- GP> Rather than an Amiga Technologies 'apologist', I prefer to think of myself
- GP> as someone who wants what the future holds with Amiga Technologies, a PPC
- GP> card for my 3000 and/or a Power Amiga.
-
- But you are an AT apologist, Gary. Whenever anyone criticizes any move
- that AT makes that they might disagree with, you jump in on their side.
- Some of your arguments were so convoluted in your defense of them that
- you sounded like Kittel's water boy.
-
- And please note the words "When the specs come out for the 1300...".
- I'm not talking about the PPC Amiga; I'm agreeing with Poag (please
- halt for a second while I shake my head in disbelief that I actually
- said that again) that the 1300 is a mistake. Old technology in the
- guise of a new computer will hurt AT's rep. And no matter what you
- think about me and my feelings about AT, I don't want to see that
- happen, because that'll mean a second death for the Amiga.
-
- GP> There are logical steps to take to get us there. Some prefer total silence
- GP> for a year or two until the R&D gets done. That is NOT feasably practical
- GP> for a business. No company sits idle (sales-wise) for 2 years.
-
- But there's a trade-off in that, and that's the degradation of the
- image of the Amiga.
-
- GP> In the short term, Amiga Technologies is going to release a low end and a
- GP> high end computer to fill demand, to bring in cash flow, and to keep the
- GP> Amiga name in the eye of the public as much as possible. Maybe even a
- GP> mid-range computer if the need and ability arises?
-
- But I wasn't talking about any of this. I was wondering how you were
- going to justify the 1300 if it's anything like the rumors of what
- we've heard it will be.
-
- Eric Szulczewski
- ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net
- Member, Team AMIGA
- President, Gary Peake Fan Club
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