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From: tron1@tronsbox.UUCP (HIM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Fading? : Revisited
Message-ID: <2610326d:6254.6comp.sys.amiga;1@tronsbox.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 90 07:00:18 GMT
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>Item: 6254 by *Masked* at cunyvm.cuny.edu
>Author: [Marc Barrett]
>  Subj: Amiga Fading? : Revisited
>  Keyw: 

>  Keyw: 
>  Date: Tue Mar 27 1990 06:24 

Oh boy -- I get to do this twice in one day ?!?!?!

>entitled "Amiga Fading?"  This was a comment about an article in
>TIME which compared Commodore's big bashes in New York and Las Angeles

TIME magazine , well know industry source for timely computer information.

>card.  The operating system is also years out-of-date -- lacking
>critical capabilities such as full virtual memory and support for
>memory-management units -- and will be replaced by UNIX in the

The same applies to a bunc of OS's that the "industry" likes. The MAC OS and
DOS are worthless for either of those (ok, the MAC doesn't need it - no
multitasking, and MS-DOS doesnt either).

>higher-end machines.  Thus, the new higher-end machines can hardly
>be called Amigas at all.

On the contrary. "Amiga" is a state of mind. You aren't in it  (because you
seem to be perfectly able to spout rumors and propoganda) .. 

>
>   I look forward to the new machines, since I am a UNIX fanatic
>and am also looking forward to the possibility of finally being

Well, I like UNIX too - thats why I like the Amiga.

>   Is there any real hope for the real, true Amiga?  I doubt it.
>Commodore has their attentions on UNIX, and the computer industry
>doesn't pay attention to the Amiga at all.

Define real true Amiga -- so far you have said that any change make it a
"non-amiga" .. so how can it grow ??

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