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- From: mart4372@mach1.wlu.ca (Reg Martin)
- Subject: Re: The New Ami: a right step!
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- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:14:13 GMT
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- UNREGISTERED VERSION (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- : >There, I think Bj÷rn has hit the nail squarely on the head here. So the
- : >question becomes: given that the Amiga is now far, far out of running in
- : >price/performance, how does AT avoid merely digging itself into an ever
- : >bigger hole? The only hope I see is probably to get on the CHRP (not
- : >just PPC) bandwagon, pray that Apple stays afloat, and get out of the
- : >custom hardware business by taking advantage of cheap high performance
- : >PCI cards & CHRP machines. Maybe even share common software development
- : >tasks with the other CHRP platforms. Put all your development $ into
- : >AmigaOS. Aim to get out of the hardware business entirely except
- : >possibly to OEM machines from somebody.
- : >IMHO, if AT follows a path much different from this one, its gonna be
- : >the end of the road for the hitherto valiant Ami.
- :
- : IMHO I'd say that this would be one of the most dangerous ways to go.
-
- Well, then... uhm... you're wrong. :)
-
- Why is it that so many people shout "Commodore killed the Amiga!", but
- then they turn around and say that they think that AT should basically
- take the same route as C= did. Selling overpriced proprietary hardware
- when "standard" off the shelf hardware will do the job just as well or
- better is a stupid stupid stupid thing to do. I'd love to run AmigaOS
- on a PPC machine. However, I likely won't unless I'm able to run it
- on a PPCP machine so that I don't have to buy my computer from AT.
-
- Reg Martin
-