Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!granite.pa.dec.com!mwm From: mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Blues Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 15:39:37 GMT References: <20260001@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <1037@flash.UUCP> <13697@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1045@flash.UUCP> <138.26c18ff6@intersil.uucp> <1056@flash.UUCP> Sender: news@wrl.dec.com (News) Organization: Missionaria Phonibalonica Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: stergios@portia.Stanford.EDU's message of 15 Aug 90 00:25:26 GMT In article stergios@portia.Stanford.EDU (stergios marinopoulos) writes: speaking of winers, is this the same mwm that went on and on and on and on about the new bus specs, that they were incompatible, and finally bryce made a custom jig for? my, how people change. Not it isn't. Bryce never made the custom jig. CBM cost me thousands of dollars and months of time by making what amounted to a cosmetic change. If you read what I've written here carefully, you'll see that I mention that change as a justifiable reason to be pissed, because it caused expansion hardware to be delayed and A1000 expansion hardware to cost more than it should. I never flamed CBM about what the vendors did - that's not CBM's fault. I never flamed CBM for promising one thing and delivering another - for the most part, they delivered on their promises. I never flamed the software vendors for providing software that didn't multitask - I rarely have problems with that. All I ever did was flame CBM for doing everything they could to kill the A1000 expansion market. That resulted in expansion hardware being delayed and overpriced. If you tried to buy hardware at reasonable prices/times (i.e. - what it would have been if CBM hadn't made those changes), it was unreliable because it didn't follow spec. That wasn't CBMs fault. So what's the change?