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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 18:54:19 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- : >What about the a500 and the a1200? These are the numbers machines, the
- : >ones that sell in the thousands rather than the hundreds. The amiga is not
- : >about the high end and the few that own them.
-
- : The A500 using 1.3 is ONE of the things that is hurting us now, along with bad
- : C= management, too much PD/Shareware that is too good and should be wrapped,
- : boxed and sold commercially. Until Amiga users decide they will 'upgrade'
- : both their OS and their systems just like the clone users do, we will NEVER
- : be in the same markets as the clone users. And until so much great
- : PD/Shareware progs are boxed and sold commercially ONLY, we will never be
- : able to walk into our local computer stores and buy off the shelf.
-
- There is a time to admit battles lost and get on with it. I think AT has done
- that somewhat, although they seem to be interested in starting new ones. :)
-
- : >The a4000 is 'cheap', just not in price. :)
-
- : Cheap to you is nice to others I guess? :)
-
- The a4000 is non-standard, full of kludges, and is incompatible with just
- about everything but the toaster. It is a piece of junk IMO.
-
- : >: The Amiga isn't about CHEAP, it's about DIFFERENT!
- : >
- : >Only when different is better. Then it is eccentricity, otherwise it is
- : >stubborness and worse. I don't place a lot of value in the rebel without a
- : >cause market.
-
- : This 'rebel' does have a cause! My cause is to help support Amiga
- : Technologies so that when it's time for us and them to bite the bullet and
- : move on to better systems, faster OS's, more commercial software ... it
- : will be there for us with the same 'look and feel' that we have today!
-
- As far as I am concerned if it is running a version of amigaos then it is an
- amiga. When you move the mouse the mouse pointer smoothly moves along with
- it, when you click on a gadget something happens immediately, and if you
- don't like something about the machine you can change it in a modular
- fashion. If a machine has that then it is an amiga.
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
-
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