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- From: gcaine@cycor.ca (gcaine)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Viscorp, Amiga, and the future.
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 04:32:14 GMT
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- >Yes, I can understand why you might feel that way. Let me just say
- >this: VIScorp's main reason (only reason) for using the Amiga in the
- >first place is because of the existing software and developer base. If
- >it kills the machine, then it will lose exactly what it wanted to gain:
- >developers. That is the big problem with all TV set top boxes these
- >days. They have no content. VIScorp figured they could hit the ground
- >running.
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- > Carl
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- >[One irrelevant sentence deleted by prior agreement.]
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- > So, yeah, there is hope. There is also the message someone else
- >posted from one of the other guys at VIScorp that they would "consider"
- >future advances in the Amiga PC line, i.e. the Power Amiga. Yes, he
- >said "consider". I hope they "consider" it a good idea, so I can have
- >that Power Amiga a year from now!
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- I think if they want to keep the developers around, they will have to
- do more than just "consider" the Power Amiga.
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- Gary Caine Member: Team AMIGA
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