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From: C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Go ahead, make my day (was Re: A new Amiga from Japan)
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Date: 22 Jan 90 22:08:12 GMT
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In article <5385@tekig5.pen.tek.com>, wayneck@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Wayne Knapp)
writes:
>I feel that future of small computers is really bright.  If the Amiga goes
>down the tubes (Which I think is happening) it is no big deal since multi-
>media is here to stay and other computer will quicky take the Amiga's place.
>
>                                      Wayne Knapp

And for those of us who can't afford to buy a new computer every 3-5 years,
I guess we'll just be oughta luck, right?  But we should have thought of that
when we bought Commodore stuff, right?  Sheesh!

Do you really believe what you said?  Surely anything is possible, and the
Amiga *could* fade away in the next year, but I don't think it is *probable*
considering all the upcoming and current developments (Amix, 2500/30, 3000,
XWindows/networking/multi-serial boards, frame buffers and video cards, etc)
related specifically to enhancing the Amiga's usefulness and increasing the
size of the audience to which it can be successfully marketted.

Progress in small computers is good, but I hope that doesn't mean the Amiga
development must die in the next year or two.  (Someday it *will* die, I agree,
but the above statement makes it sound like tomorrow is D-Day.)

 /  Baird McIntosh (2nd yr CS/Math major, University of Missouri-Columbia)
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