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- From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Future Amiga chipset
- Message-ID: <38103@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 00:28:28 GMT
- References: <38053@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1i74VB2w164w@admiral.uucp> <38092@cbmvax.commodore.com> <BzMEAy.Esu@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
- Organization: Flying Cat, Inc.
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- In article <BzMEAy.Esu@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <38092@cbmvax.commodore.com> andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel) writes:
- >>I don't think you can count him as 'here'. He probably doesn't buy
- >>Amiga hardware or software, and certainly doesn't contribute
- >>to the Amiga community (unless you count his campaign to keep WordPerfect
- >>off the Amiga as a 'contribution'.)
- >
- > I was trying to keep a bunch of people from wasting their time. I have
-
- If you really wanted to stop wasting people's time, you'd stop posting.
-
- Active discouragement is hard to justify. From your postings, I
- seriously doubt you care how much time anyone wastes. No, you were
- just continuing your anti-Amiga campaign.
-
- >exchanged e-mail messages with the president of Word Perfect Corp., way back
- >when they first announced that they were abandoning the Amiga. If anything,
- >it was primarily due to the letter-campaign that I initiated that Word Perfect
-
- You've posted this claim before, and it still doesn't ring true;
- Basically, you have not proven to me that you've ever done anything
- that will help the Amiga, Amiga users, or, in fact, anyone.
-
- >>The 1200 is probably a going to be a big success. That will probably
- >>change things. (BTW, where'd you hear EA was dropping the Amiga ?
- >>That doesn't match with what I've heard)
- >
- > You hope. The noose around the A1200's neck is the software situation. And
- >Commodore is not taking the steps they need to improve this situation. As a
- >for instance, take a look at the letter written to me by the people who
- >developed 'DataTax'. These people do not believe the Amiga has a large enough
- >installed base in the U.S. to support even one good tax preparation program.
- >The letter was posted to comp.sys.amiga.announce a few days ago.
-
- I've not seen it; I'll certainly look at it, keeping in mind
- that I have no way of verifying what your letter to them said
- (ie it could have flamed them, it could have been a letter asking
- them never to support the Amiga), and I have no way of verifying
- that their letter to you was anything like you posted.)
-
- After all, I have to remember the reputation you've obviously
- spent much time building.
-
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
-
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-
- andy
- --
- andy finkel andy@cbmvax.commodore.com
-
- "Unix is the Operating System of the future, and always will be."
-
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- I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
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