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- From: atkin@cs.umass.edu (Marc Atkin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
- Summary: The Amiga situation is not as bad as it appears from reading the net
- Message-ID: <29DEC199218114334@cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:11:00 GMT
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- In article [...], barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes...
- >In article [...] barrett@astro.cs.umass.edu (Daniel Barrett) writes:
- >>In article [...] atkin@cs.umass.edu (Marc Atkin) writes:
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- [...]
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- Thanks Marc for responding to Dan's response to my article: It results in a
- wonderfully cute author list. (At least I think so!)
-
- To re-iterate the point of my original article:
- From reading the net one can get the impression that nobody in the world knows
- about the Amiga. Together with the relatively low volume of Amiga sales in the
- US this can easily turn Amiga advocates into Amiga fanatics, which isn't
- necessarily a good thing.
-
- Fact is that the Amiga is very well-known in Europe (just look at how much of
- the recent PD-software has been authored by European programmers), but Europe
- as a whole is under-represented on the net. Together with the human tendency to
- prefer whining and complaining to pointing out good things, this results in
- overly negative picture of the Amiga situation on the net.
-
- Of course there are many things that are not anywhere near perfect. I too
- would like to see CD-ROM equipped Amigas and more aggressive advertising.
- But "The Amiga is going to die real soon now" type postings are unjustified
- IMHO and potentially harmful - especially if people believe them.
-
-
- Marc Atkin //
- U of Massachusetts // " Goosnargh. "
- at Amherst \\ //
- atkin@cs.umass.edu \X/
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