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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
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- Date: 14 Mar 1996 04:33:55 GMT
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm@bitnova.com) wrote:
- : jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) wrote:
-
- : any factual information to back up either side of the statement. I won't
- : say they're common without something to prove it, but I don't think you
- : have anything that really shows concrete proof that they're hard to get
- : in quantity, either. Appologies if you do, I'd love to see it.
-
- I base my conclusion that Amiga Tech had to special-order the 020s used
- in their Amiga 1200s. Perhaps there's a stockpile of useless external
- MMUs somewhere for a discontinued processor, but I doubt it.
-
- : If you, and others like you, insist on overloading the BASE model of the
- : new Amiga with high-priced components, then you're sending a statement of
- : your own: the message that you wish to exclude a large segment of the
- : potential Amiga market.
-
- Without marketing, this ultra-low-end does not exist. If AT is
- unwilling to try to recreate this market, it will be a waste of time.
-
- : I think the EC030 is just FINE for the ---> BASE <--- machine. It has a
- : frinkin' CPU slot, have you forgotten how we did things back in 1990,
- : with the A2000? Drop in a different CPU card, and boom, a new model.
-
- And have you forgotten how much those A2000 CPU cards COST?
-
- : ATg have made a logical, low-cost BASE machine that is probably going to
- : be in reach for a LOT more people than an 040-based or 060 based system
- : would.
-
- Perceived value of an 030/40 machine is very, very low. The computer
- market is all about perceived value these days...
-
- : Bellyache all you want about it, but I think I can speak for a LOT of
- : Amiga owners: an EC030/40 Mhz is a LOT faster than what I'm using NOW,
- : and throw in AGA graphics... well. Thumb your nose at us all you want,
- : Jason, but remember that not everyone is using a 120 MHz 060
- : dual-processor Amiga quite yet...
-
- It's faster than what I'm using now: A vintage 1990 Amiga 3000 with an
- 030/25 (with MMU and FPU, I might add.) That was high-end. Taking a
- "computer generation" at a VERY conservative 2 years, you mean to tell me
- that in 3 generations the Amiga will have a low end with processing power
- improved by less than a factor of TWO from the high end of over half a
- decade ago? Sorry, but you'll win no new friends doing that.
-
- --
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- Editor-in-Chief, Amiga Report Magazine (708) 741-0689 FAX
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