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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: What is the purpose and role of the Amiga?
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- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 09:46:07 GMT
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- PETER SINCLAIR-DAY (sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu) wrote:
- : Now that the Amiga is on it's fourth owner, what do the new owners see in the
- : Amiga's role in the NA market. What is the purpose of the Amiga , how does it
- : fit currently and what markets will the Amiga try to compete in? With the
- : current state of the hardware and software I have a hard time seeing the Amiga
- : succeed.
-
- Well, VIScorp seem to be interested in getting their set top boxes launched
- *AND* developing the Amiga. We can expect PowerAmiga's buy the end of this
- year. This machine will compete with amd outperform anything in it's
- catagory, by a long way. The OS will be PowerPC native by ~Aug '96. One of
- the first in fact. Copeland will not be released until early '97! Windoze
- '95 is just a poor hack and looks like MacOS '89!
-
- Basically, the Amiga looks like it come storming back to the marketplace.
- More and more people are now waking up to the fact that M$ products are crap
- and they are getting disgruntled with PC's. A lot of people are worried by
- Apples financial troubles at the moment also. So it seems that maybe, the
- PowerAmiga release will be at a time when the consumer base are looking for
- something new!
-
- Who knows! It's far to hard to say anything definite at this time!
-
- BTW - Would you buy a PPCP compliant machine with an Amiga label on it? Take
- into account the expandability options this will allow! Just wondering!
-
- Personally, I think that VIScorp will carry on the development. They'd be
- crazy not to because they own the best, most efficient OS in the home market,
- bar *none*.
-
- As for software - there is plenty of quality software on the Amiga. It also
- provides a platform that is not overrun by M$, Clarris, etc. products.
- Variety is the spice of life!
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
- * T.Lewis@bton.ac.uk * if Charles Manson was sitting on *
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