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- From: tmc@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Tim Ciceran)
- Subject: Re: Attn Commodore: You are making a Big Mistake (Hardware Manual)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.055612.14310@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA>
- Organization: Brock University, St. Catharines Ontario
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 05:56:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.000037.27562@wuecl.wustl.edu> amc@wucs1.wustl.edu
- (Adam Costello) writes:
-
- >If Commodore refuses to release a hardware manual for future Amigas,
- >they will be betraying their most loyal customers...
-
- If CBM were to publish hardware reference guides for the AGA chipset,
- programmers would be inclined to bang on the hardware, making RTG an even
- more distant objective.
-
- >Commodore should compete by striving to be different from its competitors,
- >not by trying to mimic them. Compatibility has always been one of the
- >strengths of IBM and Apple. Capability has always been the strength of
- >Amiga.
-
- Capability also gets you a 7 year transition from chipsets and software
- which can't utilize existing graphics boards.
-
- >If Commodore fails to document the hardware, lots of Commodore's paying
- >customers will suffer. They may even desert.
-
- Not likely. When given a choice between a selection of plug-and-play graphics
- coprocessors and increased software functionality vs. short-term personal
- antics, which would you choose?
-
- >And if none of the above is convincing, consider this: hackers will
- >figure out much of the hardware anyway, but not all of it, which is an
- >even more dangerous situation than the one Commodore is afraid of.
-
- All the more to them. I'm sure CBM could care less.
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