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From: bevis@EE.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Jeff Bevis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: A3000
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Date: 12 Nov 89 02:32:55 GMT
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In article <119.25505695@metnet.FIDONET.ORG>, Mark.Johnson@p0.f30.n147.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Johnson) writes:
>Hmmm seems to me that the logic used by the Atari bashers makes that 
>A3000 a vaporware product too. Seems odd that they aren't crying about 
>their awful - supportless - lying - cheating C= company like they are 
>trying to accuse Atari of, eh?
>
I didn't see any smilies on that.  Commodore has lately (last 1.5 years) been
doing a wonderful job of improving their customer and developer support.
I would not accuse CBM of lying or cheating;  for that, you should see Apple,
Inc.  These days it seems Commodore is running a fairly clean and smooth
operation.  It just keeps getting better.

I wouldn't label the A3000, or even Amiga UNIX (AMIX), as vaporware.  Amiga
UNIX is, in fact, in functioning existence as we speak, and was demoed
recently at some UNIX convention.  The 3000 is simply the next step in the
evolution of the machines, and there WILL be more, rest assured.

Naturally, nobody in this newsgroup really cares what happens at Commodore.
This is an Atari group.  I'm an Amiga person (see .sig), and I just dropped
in to see what you people were doing with your machines, so that I might
make more intelligent conversation... This was the first article I saw.
It's sad, really, since this kind of brand-prejudice is totally non-
productive and has helped us all to come to live in an IBM-dominated world.
I sure hope the rest of this group is better or I might as well just
unsubscribe...

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