Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore at SIGGRAPH (&& NewTek!) Message-ID: <140582@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 13 Aug 90 22:46:28 GMT References: <1990Aug11.001916.9035@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 21 In article (Kim DeVaughn) writes: >Hopefully they have been able to come up with something more creative than: >"It's in FCC testing" (where it has been for a year or two), or "DRAM prices >are (still) too high" (which was worn out 18 months ago), or "We decided to >re-engineer it to work on 3000's/2.0" (which means we can play this vapor- >ware game all over again, whilst still keeping the market stifled). I like the Atari story, whenever a new product previews, the one that is supposed to work was "dropped by the UPS guy" and so unfortunately it can't be demonstrated. Of course it will ship in production quantities next month. ha ha ha. The NewTek people are just new to the game. I can't believe the Digiview revenues have kept them alive this long. -- --Chuck McManis Sun Microsystems uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: Internet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "I tell you this parrot is bleeding deceased!"