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- From: chall@clover.cleaf.com (Chris Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 10:46:53 GMT
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- Richard Pitre (pitre@n5160d.nrl.navy.mil) wrote:
-
- : I don't think that C= could have done much better than they did.
-
- C= could have been leading the pack if it hadn't been for the people at
- the top of the company. In the mid to late 80s, C= computers was the
- machines that many people had. C= made many stupid mistakes because their
- management didn't think any further ahead than their next trip on the
- corporate jet to the Bahamas. Here's some of the mistakes they made:
-
- They ignored the NA market, one of the largest computer markets in the
- world. This is what did the most damage to C=. AT seems to be doing the
- same thing, sure we can get computers here but besides a few cities, you
- can't just walk into a store and get Amiga products.
-
- They dumped real support for the 8bit machines before most 8bit users had
- upgraded. This pissed off many of their old customers, ones that were
- saving for Amigas.
-
- They dropped mass market sales because dealers were upset. Sure
- theoretically you get better support from dealers but in real life, that
- support comes at a very high price. Way to high for many people. Also
- those dealers aren't everywhere. You can walk into your nearest mass
- market store but if you want to walk into the nearest dealer, your
- looking at a LONG walk.
-
- They made way to many different models of the same basic computer. This
- is a useless waste of development money. They made six different 7mhz 68000
- Amigas, that was three to many cases and four to many basic motherboard
- shapes. The A1000 should have been the low end (just upgraded to a newer
- MB) and the A2000, a high end. The CDTV should have been a 68020 machine.
-
-
- : The Amiga had vastly superior low level technology but:
-
- For years it was vastly superior high level technology also.
-
-
- : 1. It did not convert that superiority into something that was immediately and
- : obviously more useful to most customers. Yes you and I and many other graphics
- : oriented people did experience a truely incredibly brilliant piece of work in
- : the Amiga kernal and graphics system. It did with a measly 7Mhz, 16bit data bus
- : what todays PCs are doing with 100+Mhz and 32 bit busses. And it does real
- : multitasking better than even unix does it for a personal computer.
-
- You can't compare the 68k Amigas to newer 32bit clone systems. If you want
- to do some comparing, put the 68k Amigas against IBM ATs. A500s aren't
- the only Amiga ever produced. Two years ago when C= went under, the Amiga
- was among some of the most advanced computers on the market. The problem
- is several years of no real development work on the machine. I don't know
- about any Amigas that you have experience with but my A4000 is fully 32
- bit and with a PPC processor card & GFX card, it will compete one on one
- with modern WinTel machines. Lets see a four year old Intel motherboard
- upgraded with newer processor & gfx card compete with an equally upgraded
- A4000.
-
-
- Chris Hall
-
-