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- From: bmontgom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Byron Montgomerie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Carl Sassenreuth at VIScorp
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 16:40:35 GMT
- Organization: St. John's, NFLD, Canada
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- Jim (mij67@delphi.com) wrote:
- :
- : >I got it. These super negative people WANT the Amiga to fail. Then
- : >they will really have something to be miserable about.
-
- : I disagree...I think that there are so many Amiga users that have been
- : waiting soooo long for a new machine, that the frustration just starts to
- : bubble up. I have been with the Amiga since the beginning, just like many
- : others who read this newsgroup, and I must admit that this frustration is
- : even starting to take its toll on me. I'm stuck in a position that many
- : of us here are, the A4000 is not a big enough performance step to be worth
- : it, yet we are starting to run short on horsepower with the older machines.
-
- It seems to me that Escom churned out a few a1200s and a4000s then sold the
- works, just as some of us here anticipated they would a year ago.
- Ironic. :)
-
- : I am going to hang with my Amiga until next spring, and if the new PPC
- : Amiga's are not out with some impressive new hardware, I'm going to stop
- : cutting bait and just go fishing (with some new platform). I have a
- : strong feeling that a huge chunk of the Amiga users out there feel the same
- : way.
-
- I am concerned that VIScorp will open up the custom chipset debate again and
- they will have to be persuaded to see the light like the rest of us. :) As
- far as I am concerned any talk of custom chipsets for an amiga computer will
- simply be another delay, it can't be justified for a computer no matter what
- you do.
-
- : So, in closing, VISCORP....PLEASE, PLEASE answer the call and get the new
- : hardware out. I WANT A NEW AMIGA....I just can't continue to promise
- : myself that new computer "next spring" over, and over, and over.....
-
- Oh, give them some time to work out the details, I for one don't expect them
- to have a detailed plan available immediately. We were waiting until Sept
- anyway, nothing has changed that. Anyway, we can still have fun in the
- meantime speculating on what they will do. :)
-
- Regards,
-
- BM
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