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- From: jerry@arlut.utexas.edu (Jerry Heyman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 18:46:47 GMT
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- Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
- : In a message of 07 Jan 96 Chris Hall wrote to All:
-
- : > : Does this mean that you believe American journalists are intentionally :
- : > avoiding coverage of the Amiga's situation?
-
- : CH> A lot of people believe that because it's most likely true. Hardly any
- : CH> of the general computer publications such as Byte even mention the
- : CH> Amiga. The biggest computer story of '95 and none of them even touched
-
- : Come on, a small (yes, *small*) computer maker that, in some grey
- : past, used to be big goes under and that's the computer story of the
- : year?
-
- Actually Byte magazine did a Eulogy (spelling?) for Commodore when the final
- papers were filed. It covered the entire history of Commodore - and called
- out all the special firsts that the Amiga generated. Ignored? Not completely
-
- Actually its the Rebirth that seems to be ignored.
-
- : Nope... This is starting to smell of paranoia a bit.
- : If it was IBM, it would've been the story of the year.
-
- : Regards, Ruud
- : rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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