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- From: maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com (Kerry Hales)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Schmitt out, Jost in!!
- Date: 5 Apr 1996 21:22:03 GMT
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- Jason Compton (jcompton@flood.xnet.com) wrote:
- : Ruud Dingemans (rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl) wrote:
-
- : : Could be, but need not be. Mr. Jost does know the Amiga very well,
- : : probably better than mr. Schmitt ever did.
-
- : Herein lies the REAL question. What does Mr. Jost THINK of the Amiga?
- : If he perceives the Amiga as "that nonstandard machine that killed
- : Commodore", we have a problem.
-
- : Other important questions are--Why did Jost leave Commodore for Escom?
- : And why did he leave Escom for IBM? And why did he leave IBM for Escom?
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- We have all got to realize that it probably doesn't matter WHO runs Escom
- or AT. Why? Because the big guys rely on the little guys to produce a
- product and make money. Too much has been invested in AT to just drop
- it. I am SURE they would sell it off or develop it before they dropped it.
-
- Changing the topic a bit, here: It is not really the hardware we should
- be concerned with. It is the SOFTWARE. Everyone knows you can port the
- OS to PPC or INtel or whatever. The big question is how is AT going to
- lure in software developers. There is only one left in the U.S. (Softwood)
- and a handfull in Europe. Of course, the software players EVERYWHERE are
- dying off, thanks to the Billy Facist Gates.
-
- Just my opinion here. Take it or leave it.
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