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- From: fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 12:50:57 GMT
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- In article <4ih45h$h57@tkhut.sojourn.com>,
- mharrell@sojourn1.sojourn.com (Matt Harrell) writes:
- >Lee Huggett (Lee@burst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- >
- >: Amigas were orignally designed to be the ultimate games machine, back in 1982
- >: but thne the botom dropped out of the video games market so the team converted
- >: the machine into a computer..
- >
- >Nope. You're wrong there. It was designed to be a low cost video
- >workstation. It was the original "multimediate PC", even though the
- >term was not yet in use. It was NOT designed to simply be a games
- >machine. That simply happened to follow naturally as a result of the
- >Amiga's video and audio skills. Now I'm certain that games *did*
- >cross the minds of the developers.
-
- Nope. Sorry YOU'RE wrong. Amiga (that was the company's name)
- originally designed the machine as the ultimate games console.
- This is a well established fact, backed up by the people who worked
- on it at the time.
-
- When Commodore bought out Amiga (and it became Commodore-Amiga) they
- adapted the hardware and wrote an OS for the machine so to turn it
- into a 'mutlimedia PC'.
-
- >: Thing that has always annoyed me is that Commodore was there before IBM with the
- >: business computer which was accepted by everyone, the Commodore PET..
-
- I think IBM beat Commodore, but I'm not sure. I seem to remember they
- have a machine out before the PC which was aimed at this market, but obviously
- it was not as popular.
-
- >: They managed to shaft that up, they made BILLIONS of dollars from the C64, they
- >: pissed all that away, they got the Amiga managed to kill themselves off with
- >: it..
-
- They made millions, not billions. The turnover may have been in billions.
-
- >: Is it any surprise with that track record they died??
- >
- >Must agree here!
-
- Me too.
-
- >: Maybe Atari should have got the Amiga all that time ago..
- >
- >Yes, Atari had (has?) such a wonderful track record.
-
- :->
-
- -FISH- ><>
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