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- Path: sparky!uunet!tension!shogun
- From: shogun@tension.UUCP (Jay Brown)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Don't let the Amiga Die (Part II)!!!
- References: <jon.taylor.61.724031139@uuserv.cc.utah.edu>
- Message-ID: <shogun.09f6@tension.UUCP>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 12:07:05 EST
- Organization: High Tension BBS
- Lines: 34
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- In order to keep the Amiga alive we have to voice our opinion not to
- the developers, but to C=. They do not push the machine at all. They have let
- the major group of systems sold stay with a 16 bit CPU that is really slow
- compared to comparably priced PC clones. There is nothing wrong with the Amiga
- being pushed as a video machine or a multimedia machine, but it must be able to
- do more. It can. In reality any computer can do all of the applications that
- any other computer can, but the software must be there. I heard that NBC was
- looking at buying a Toaster system, but when they found it couldn't run any of
- their IBM productivity software they passed on it. C= can expect that reaction
- if they don't have Lotus, or Excel, or Word an whatnot. My point is, that we
- have to push our company of choice to aid developers. They need to push the
- machine. They need to make it available to the public. C= has made some
- STUPID mistakes in the past regarding buisiness descisions. I heard that they
- would not provide an A2000 to a movie studio, becase they wanted it to be a
- sale. This studio then went to Apple, and walked away with a Mac Plus. That
- Mac was used to run an animation of molecules in Star Trek: The Voyage Home.
- God, what advertisement that would have made. As it is, the only movie I have
- ever seen an Amiga in was Earth Girls Are Easy, and in that they rolled a
- boling ball into it. What does this say?
- Basically, no competitive productivity software, decreasing market
- share. Macs used to be a fantics platform only. Most of the PC users I know
- looked down on Mac users like they look down on Amiga users, but now that the
- Macintosh has been accepted into the mainstream (even priced so much higher
- than a comperable Amiga) they get respect. I love games, but all of the best
- are INM compat. only games (i.e.: Ultima Underworld, Ultima VII, Castle
- Wolfenstein, Falcom 3.0, Comanche...), but I also need applications software.
- Otherwise, a person either has to have both an IBM and an Amiga, or foresake
- the AMiga community altogether.
- Jay Brown
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- IBM MAKES IT IN BULK...MACINTOSH MAKES IT POPULAR, BUT ONLY AMIGA MAKES IT
- POSSIBLE.
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