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- From: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: More AmigaWorld Lies
- Message-ID: <35014@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 14:24:36 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.070214.21249@news.iastate.edu> <bruce.0am5@zuhause.MN.ORG> <1992Sep8.003808.6875@news.iastate.edu>
- Reply-To: mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N Barrett) writes:
- [.... deleted ...]
- >>Why don't you sell your Amiga, buy one of those wonderful IBM PC clones,
- >>and post to the PC groups. We already know that the Amiga is a niche
- >>market, doesn't have all of the latest gee whiz technology, and is never
- >>going to replace the PC or the Mac. We like it for what it has, and when
- >>we need a new computer, maybe we'll jump ship if the competition has what
- >>we want. We don't need you to continue to sound the death toll, three
- >>to four years is long enough.
-
- Yes, please Marc? Could you do this and maybe start being "your wonderful
- self" over where we don't need to see it?
-
- > What I want is a better Amiga. I can more honestly call myself an Amiga
- >pioneer than 90% of the people who flame me for my messages. I got my first
- >Amiga in March of 1986, only a few months after it started hitting the streets.
- >There are probably plenty of people at Commodore who ahve not been using
- >Amigas as long as I have.
-
- Yes, but not in the engineering group. I know that most of us had machines
- in 1985. I know that I was a developer for the Amiga at the time of the
- New York show (the 1985 Amiga introduction to the world...) Randall Jesup
- was an Amiga user back then, so was Dave, etc. But that is not important.
- There are some here that did not have their machines from the beginning.
- However, they have been *constructive* in their efforts with the Amiga.
- Many of us have come from other industries to help make the Amiga be
- better. We do not spread falsehoods or flames but rather try to really
- do something. (Products as 3rd parties or Amiga development as employees
- of Commodore.)
-
- When we tell you that you do not have your facts correct and yet you
- continue to state as if you *know* (as if it is a fact) when you only
- have your own (slanted) view as to what is really going on, you do
- a disservice to the Amiga and the Amiga community. As everyone knows,
- the Amiga is not perfect. Commodore is not perfect. In fact, nothing
- is perfect. However, we are also not absolutely bad nor do we try to
- be bad.
-
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