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  1. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!spartan.ac.BrockU.CA!tmc
  3. From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
  4. Subject: Re: 300 MIP Amiga
  5. Message-ID: <1992Nov21.205952.1195@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
  6. Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
  7. Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 20:59:52 GMT
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  10. In article <1992Nov21.175023.13871@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung) writes:
  11.  
  12. >Yet, Commodore isn't sitting idle either.  We know that they (at least
  13. >their engineers ;) are working on newer chipsets and more advanced feature.
  14. >So I wouldn't think Amigas will go under any time soon.  The only way to 
  15. >kill the Amiga now, is to stop supporting/buying Amiga and Amiga-related
  16. >software/hardware.
  17.  
  18. But the irony is that mainstreaming the platform through RISC capability
  19. would open up the system to a wide range of possibilities. The potential 
  20. of running NeXTStep, Windows NT, Unix or VMS leads to longevity. Making
  21. the A4000 CPU modular offers tremendous advantages.
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