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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: CBM's big advertising push
Message-ID: <124478@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 23:55:33 GMT
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In article <4343@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>, don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) writes:
> In article <17036@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c162-de@zooey.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David Navas) writes:
> >[Regarding commercials]
>      Why the sudden push?  Mainly because CBM was recently approached by Lotus
> and Microsoft about the possibility of porting their software to the amiga.
> They reached an agreement that if CBM can sell 100,000 amigas in the US between
> October and December, they'll port their stuff over to Ami, thus giving it a 
> tremendous boost in prestige (if I'm not mistaken, Lotus doesn't even write
> its stuff for the Mac...).  

Sorry.

They announced plans back when the Mac was very new to do a version of Symphony
for it.

After some years, and not a little rumor-mongering, they finally shipped something
called "Jazz".

What with various problems, not the least of which was a $600 or so price tag,
they gave up.  Too many other products that worked better and cost less.

Sound familiar?

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