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- From: larrymb@gramercy.ios.com (UNREGISTERED VERSION)
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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 03:46:54 GMT
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- >I'm sure I've seen a quote form Jay Miner (God rest his soul) that he wanted
- >to design the ultimate games machine cos Atari wouldn't let him after the
- >Atari 800
- Yes, he wanted to essentially make the Amiga at a time that would have
- beatenthe Mac to the market amd when the IBM PC was barely getting going.
- Perhaps even if Atari had bumbled as much as CBM that would have been enough
- of a head start to succeed, of course it may have ended uplacking multi-
- tasking and even a GUI. Still could have blown out the PC though.
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