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- From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: LET'S RESCUE THE AMIGA!! WAS C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
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- Date: 29 Jul 92 12:45:11 GMT
- References: <1992Jul28.231558.41972@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- jamiller@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- >I posted a question three days ago about networking 6 a500's to a 3000
- >and have of yet only received _TWO_ responses (thanks for your
- >response guys). Maybe this doesn't seem odd to you BUT IT'S DAMN
- >FRIGHTENING TO ME! Maybe it was my fault. Maybe my subject line was
- >too hard to weed through all the C= speaks!!! let's spread the word
- >posts. Maybe COMMODORE'S BIGWHIGS ARE NOT INTERESTED IN NETWORKING. IT SEEMS
- >OBVIOUS AS ACCOURDING TO A POST BY ONE OF THEIR NETWORKING GURUS THEY
- >_ONLY_ EMPLOY _THREE_ PEOPLE IN THIS CAPACITY. It seems to me that the
-
- Well, maybe those three people are busy developing products and
- don't have time to sit around reading news all the time? Ever hear of
- SANA-II? It's not at all unusual to ask a question and only get one
- or two responses; even a few years ago when the net was crawling with
- Amigans and the machine was still way ahead of its competition. Blaming
- Commodore for a lack of responses isn't very reasonable.
-
- >If we still subscribe to the notion that the Amiga is worth the
- >trouble (I'd say it is) maybe people with the means (Arthur C. Clarke,
- >Todd Rundgren, and other people with millions more than me) could lead
- >a buyout attempt in the good American tradition. I know I would buy
- >some stock even with my paltry reserves. Are there other people who
- >would?
- >
- >Mr. Gould (That's the bosses name right?) bailed out commodore,
- >apparently when noone else would, right? Well, I think this time the
- >Amiga needs not a bail-out, IT NEEDS A RESCUE! AND WE THE AMIGA
- >COMMUNITY ARE JUST THE PEOPLE FOR THE JOB!!
- >
-
- Todd R. is a Mac fanatic who only likes the Amiga for the Toaster.
-
- In any case, forcing Gould out would be near impossible. He and his
- cronies (Mehdi Ali, etc.) control too much of the stock for themselves.
- However, our job might be done for us by Gould himself: I've heard
- that his shares are for sale. That won't rid us of Mehdi or the others,
- but it's a big step in the right direction.
-
- >Oh, BTW, if you're looking to network, the only reasonable soloution
- >is with the amiga implementation of SLIP called AmigaNOS. AGAIN NOT A
- >C= PRODUCT BUT THE PRODUCT OF ANOTHER BRILLANT MEMBER OF THE AMIGA
- >COMMUNITY.
-
- No, Commodore makes ethernet and arcnet boards as well as TCP/IP
- software, and if I'm not mistaken they also funded some of Oxxi's
- development of its Amiga Novell Client Software. And again, the SANA-II
- specification was just recently finished (Standard Amiga Networking
- Architecture); it will likely provide the basis for quite a few
- networking products.
-
-
- Followups concerning networking to .datacomm.
- Followups concerning CBM management to .advocacy.
-
- (Can we all guess which one will earn more followups? :-)
-
-
- --
- Don Lloyd / "...my brain IBM; so if you see me acting strangely,\
- don@chopin.udel.edu \ don't be surprised." - Styx, 'Mr. Roboto' /
- Gibberish is Spoken Here. Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork
- MicroSoft Slogan: Resistance is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.
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