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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 08:46:52 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4itltc$26u@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <1996Mar11.221045@cantva> <9603122019.AA001qc@dookie.demon.co.uk> <3146C7D5.41C6@dmu.ac.uk> <2308.6648T1030T2851@burst.demon.co.uk> <4ih45h$h57@tkhut.sojourn.com> <DoMBox.CBx@csc.liv.ac.uk>
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- fish@csc.liv.ac.uk (S.E. Morris) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- You should try to get some more facts. While some people in the
- development team were focusing on the game aspect it was pretty
- clear that the Amiga should be a real computer. They still "sold"
- the Amiga as a game machines to their financiers because computers
- were either for a few nerds or from IBM.
-
- >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'.
-
- This is completely wrong. The Amiga had an operating system a long
- time before C= came into play.
-
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- Michael van Elst
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