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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
- Date: 17 Mar 1996 12:34:16 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
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- Jolyon Ralph (jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk) wrote:
- : You don't have to be an Amiga-hater to agree that the current Amiga line
- : is woefully underpowered by modern standards, and that the enhanced new
- : machine is not much better. Sure, I agree with all the commercial
- : judgements about why they had to do this, but the primary commercial
- : judgement for any product is "will people want to buy it?".
-
- : Apart from existing Amiga owners wanting to upgrade, I can think of few
- : people who'd want to buy an Amiga nowdays. That depresses me, because I
- : really like the Amiga, and the last thing I want to do is completely
- : abandon it. As it is, I'm typing this message on a PC, I do all my word
- : processing and day to day work on the PC. I even like the programming
- : environments (Visual C++) on the PC. But it's still a PC, the Amiga is
- : still the Amiga, and the Amiga is still much more fun to use (it's just
- : that fun isn't my prime consideration when I have work to do...)
-
- The problem is that you don't even give AT the benefit of the
- doubt. I see positive signs everyday that AT is doing a lot to
- remedy the poor situation the Amiga is in.
-
- I don't think you can expect the Amiga to catch up hardware-wise
- before the PowerAmi is a reality.
-
- On the software-side, sure, the Amiga lacks a lot, but there
- are still people developing great software for it, and AT is
- talking to major software-developers on other platforms about
- porting their software to the Ami.
-
- I just wish you would have some patience with AT. Realize this
- is a difficult time for the Amiga, you can't have it all in one
- day.
-
- I really hope you don't abandon the Amiga just yet. We need
- every developer we can get. Please be patient and have a little
- faith in AT.
-
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