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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 12:07:27 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <17736AA81S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
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- In article <4ghk3g$2n9@alterdial.UU.NET>
- mokeefe@clover.cleaf.com (LawnMowerMan) writes:
-
- >
- > Well world, I have pondered a certain issue for quite some time and I
- >think it is time that I addressed it openly.
- > I have reflected back over the past 5 years or so and considered the
- >big picture of the Amiga's history. I would like to make a few points and
- >see if anyone else draws the same possible conclusions as I have.
- > I remember quite well the market transition of the C=64 to the C=128.
- >From that point the Amiga was marketed as the next generation of home PC.
- >Unfortunately, the Amiga was not taken seriously for much besides a game
- >machine for the primary reason that big businesses had already invested
- >tremendous amounts of money into IBM machines for business applications.
- >There seemed to be no crevice that the Amiga could leverage itself into in
- >order for it's potential to be displayed to the world. Although the
- >machine was capable of tremendous graphics and animations, it was very
- >difficult to utilize that potential. Along comes Newtek and their Video
- >Toaster. Finally the tools were available to enable the Amiga to operate
- >at it's real potential at an extremely affordable price.
-
- Ah, interesting, an article about the tiny, tiny American Amiga market.
- Next time you try to debate a world wide conspiracy it might help to
- actually think world wide.
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