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From: fiddler@concertina.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Fading? : Revisited
Message-ID: <133568@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 90 00:09:19 GMT
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In article <5464@sugar.hackercorp.com>, karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> 
> Seriously, a lot of messages lately, particularly this one, do not contribute
> one bit to this group.  If your only comment is that the Amiga is worthless,
> dead and buried, please keep it to yourself, share it with your smirking
> buddies in a newsgroup for whatever machine you think is really righteous,
> or forward it to /dev/null.

Actually, the messages you're referring to sound more like they're from
people who really like the Amiga and see a lot of unrealized potential
in it.  They don't say it's worthless, but underdeveloped, not being
advanced enough as time passes.  If they'd thought it worthless, there'd
have been no such articles at all.  Not worth the time and effort to
type out.

In spite of the best efforts of the Amiga engineers, it seems quite evident
that CBM has not had it uppermost in the corporate priority list.

You can ignore any unfavorable comments, deserved or not, and go on with
business as usual...or you can put some effort into seeing if any of the
comments are based on reality.  And seeing whether they addressed anything
needing fixing that could be fixed.

Which one is going to buy you the most benefit in the long run?

The marketplace isn't going to care about what was or what might have been,
but what it sees now.

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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."   Plato, _Phaedrus_