Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!umich!caen.engin.umich.edu!srvr1!chrisl From: chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu (Chris Lang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Whither Amiga? Message-ID: <1990Mar27.213852.9408@caen.engin.umich.edu> Date: 27 Mar 90 21:38:00 GMT References: <15134@snow-white.udel.EDU> Sender: news@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mr. Usenet) Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 82 In article <15134@snow-white.udel.EDU> BARRETT%FOREST.ECIL.IASTATE.EDU@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > I have been pointing out, for some time, the fact that the Amiga is >no longer a serious force in the computer industry. So far, I have >gotten precisely the the responses I expected. The responses were to >the effect that the Amiga is still the best low-end computer money >can buy. Though it probably wasn't your intent, you've also been pointing out just what a horse's posterior you are. The Amiga is taken far more seriously than you shall ever be. > But this is exacly my point. Everything Commodore produces ends >up a home computer. The Amiga will forever remain a home computer, >and Commodore will forever remain a home computer company. Commodore >may be satisfied with this, but I am not. Whether your satisfied or not really isn't important to most of us. As proof that there is a benevolent God, I'll point out that your childish whining and petty annoyances really aren't going to make one whit of difference when it comes to Commodore's engineering or marketing of the Amiga. > There are no longer any >serious uses for the Amiga in the business, scientific, or >workstation markets. Therefore, there is no business, scientific, >or workstation software for the Amiga. Good God. Someone go tell the people seriously using the Amiga in their work that they'd better get a real computer, and fast!! (Maybe you could suggest a Mac?) > The Amiga's ability to display a puny 4096 colors is no longer >state-of-the-art. Companies that previously used Amigas (with its >ability to display 4096 colors at once) will now use Macs (with >their ability to display any of 16 Million colors at once). What insight you have into the purchasing plans of all the companies that use Amigas. Maybe Commodore should hire you into their marketing department, since you know exactly what's going on in their customers' minds. > Since 1985, Apple has improved the MAC by leaps and bounds, >but Commodore has hardly improved the Amiga at all. None of the >current Amiga models is more than slightly different than the >original Amiga 1000. I'll grant you that. But the A3000 will change all that, I'm sure, and third parties have taken up some of the slack. > If Commodore's >engineers cannot do this, then they should contact Jay Minor and >the original designers of the Lowell video card. This would >allow the Amiga to compete directly with the MAC in the >scientific, multimedia, and workstation markets. It's Miner, and he's stated that he's not interested in designing chips any more. Who needs Jay, though? You obviously know SO much more than Commodore's engineers, seems they could just stick you in a lab and let YOU have at it. (Personally, I'd advise a padlock on the OUTSIDE of the lab door, as well.) > Commodore needs to do this immediately. I originally made >my ideas about this public a year ago. As far as I know, >nothing has been done so far. That is a whole year of wasted >time. Time is growing ahort, and no more time can be wasted. WHAT? A whole YEAR and Commodore hasn't rushed out to implement your plans? I'd better get on the phone with Harry Copperman and INSIST that he hire you straight away... > BTW, I would like everyone here to know that I have pure >motived in stirring up trouble here. I love the Amiga, and >I do not want it to become a simple home computer. It appears that simple is what you do best. -- Chris Lang, University of Michigan, College of Engineering +1 313 763 1832 4622 Bursley, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109 chrisl@caen.engin.umich.edu WORK: National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, 900 Victors Way, Suite 226, Ann Arbor, MI, 48108 +1 313 995 0300 "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo Emerson