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- From: rycohen@acsu.buffalo.edu (Ross Y Cohen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 04:20:05 GMT
- Organization: UB
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- Pacarana <larrymb@gramercy.ios.com> wrote:
- >> Well, now I have no idea what to think. The press release
- >>isn't exactly brimming with good news, and from my POV doesn't look
- >>promising. VIScorp's focus on set-top-boxes is not something I'd like
- >>to see the Amiga relegated to.
-
- Exactly. Everybody has become excited after Visacorp has made some
- noises about supporting the amiga and coming out with new amiga-based
- technologies. But they have been damn vague about what sort of Amiga
- they'll be aiming for in the future. In one post a representative
- of the company said that they 'will consider' bringing out new
- amiga models. Visicorp has *not* even come close to saying that
- they are interested in the amiga's future as a *PC*.
- I don't want or need a set top or souped-up CDTV: I wan't
- a computer. I have a feeling (I hope I'm wrong) that we're going
- to be hearing a lot of nonsense about 'breaking down the barriers' and
- 'making meaningless' the difference between a set-top and a PC.
- For the near future they are going to remain very different creatures.
- The presence of so many former Amiga people at the company is some
- cause for hope; the bottom line at any *real* company, however, is
- making profit for the stockholders.
- It would be nice to hear from Visicorp what sort of plans,
- if any, they have for the Amy's future *as a PC*. That way, at
- least, a lot of us will finally know whether to go out and
- reluctantly plunk down the bucks for a PC clone, or to brazen it out
- and wait for the next generation of Amigas PC's.
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- Ross.
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