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From: alien@cpoint.UUCP (Alien Wells)
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Subject: Re: Re: Formal propsal: "rec.aquarium", not to be confused with "sci.aquaria".
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Date: 23 Oct 89 13:16:44 GMT
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>In article <6829@hubcap.clemson.edu> rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux) writes:
>The amiga is no more a toy than any other personal
>computer and it's actually more advanced than all of them.

I've been programming on a Commodore Amiga for the last 1.5 years 
(professionally).  The place I worked made the decision to use the Amiga
before I arrived, and we've been paying for it since (well, it is cheap ...).

Not even Apple has the chutzpa to try to sell a toy machine based around a
7MHz 68000.  And why haven't they increased their clock speed or processor
chip for 5 YEARS?  Why, they would have to do a rev to their graphics chip
set.  Gee, they would have to spend some $$ on R&D, huh?

And how about that chip set?  It was revolutionary when it came out, but it
really isn't much better than a VGA, and certainly a full generation behind 
the DVI and UVC technologies available for IBM PC clones.  Of course, I guess
you can't expect Commodore to maintain a technology they didn't even develop.
Amiga corp (an Atari spin-off) developed the Amiga chip set under contract 
and funding from Atari.  After spending 5M$ of Atari money, they regretfully
informed Atari they couldn't get the chip set to work (this despite the fact
that Atari had spent more M$ developing machines around the chip).  Three 
months later, Amiga sold the chip set to Commodore (did those lawsuits come
to trial yet?).

And don't tell me about the 7K$ 68030 Unix machine they hope to have out 
next year some time.  Not only do I not have any faith in them, but it is
already old news.

In the mean time, Commodore has had its market share drop so much that the
major computer industry market research firms don't even cover them any more.

Of course, the toy industry market research firms do ...
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