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- From: st1ls@rosie.uh.edu (Nick Hakim)
- Subject: Re: MS Windows and OS/2? Give 'em the Punt!
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:47:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul18.034803.27074@wuecl.wustl.edu>, cmd1@cec2.wustl.edu (Christopher M. Dunphy) writes...
- > The Amiga has never taken off in abig way for one simple reason -
- >Commodore... **[stuff deleted]
- > A few major gems come down the pike every so often, usually the
- >result of one or two inspired engineers... The Zorro III bus, CD xl,
- >WorkBench 2.0.... But as a whole the system has lacked guidance
- >from Commodore, and any serious marketing **[stuff deleted]**
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- True. Technologically speaking, the machine was ahead of it's time. Just think,
- if it HAD been marketed right, we would all have a killer desktop workstation
- instead of this @#$%^*( Intel based '486.. (well, at least me, anyway).
- And, I used to be an Atari ST owner!
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- -Nick "Anyone care to donate a Silicon Graphics Iris Indigo?" Hakim
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