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From: U3364521@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (Lou Cavallo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Should CBM pre-announce? (WAS Re: Super Chip Set)
Message-ID: <1053@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 18 Sep 90 14:20:32 GMT
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G'day,

MC> In article <1990Sep18.014227.381@darwin.ntu.edu.au>,
MC> caldwell_t@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes: 

[sorry, lost the attribution here]
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>> STRATIFY THE PRODUCT LINE!  Commodore's vision seems to be a little too
>> limitied.  The Amiga 3000/25 is wonderful, but where is the 3000/50?
>> [deleted]

MC> Do you claim to know what commodore's vision is.  Commodore keep things 
MC> fairly much under wraps these days until time for launch.  At least until 
MC> close to launch when they can't help telling people.

I do believe that the original announcements in comp.sys.amiga  by CBM stated
that the 3000 would be the first of a series of new machines. {I can't repost
the wording, a disk crash wiped out all my old c.s.amiga.* messages. :-(}

Perhaps someone who saved the original announcements (or a CBM rep?) could do
the net readers a favour by quoting CBM's original statement?
 
MC> I don't expect anyone from C= to respond to this.  But couldn't they just 
MC> say YES or NO and stop all this mindless speculation?

Perhaps to at least the above statement of mine they can...

MC> It would seem that, if they are just keeping quite, that this issue is 
MC> doing the amiga's image BAD.  People say - AMIGAS used to be the machines 
MC> for graphics work, but now they don't compair to MACIIs ect.

Perhaps this is true but I suspect that two other elements fit in here also.

a) our negative talk in the Amiga groups _may_ spread (like doom saying can
   have a tendency to do). I personally think this does as much damage.

b) this problem of falling behind is an example of technologies march. This
   will happen again even when CBM address the current shortcomings. This I
   consider a "Leap Frogging" principle.

A friend of mine (an Elec Engineer and IBM PC fan) pronounced the Amiga dead
at the start of the year. CBM then came out with the Amiga 3000 :-).

MC> So how about it commodore?  Could you please just give us the quick word?

Perhaps it is still too early for CBM (as the "new" corporate entity it has
obviously become; compared to its early days track record) to pre-announce
what its future products/strategy will be (in the way Apple do)?

I'd rather see a strong year of growth for CBM and its 3rd party market. I'd
then feel happier about early announcements CBM might make.  I'd then reason
to myself that a strong company (CBM? :-)) could keep its promises.

MC> This article is pure speculation.  I have no real idea of any details of 
MC> the existance or otherwise of anything at all.

And accepted in that spirit. My own reply is also speculative.

MC> 	Malcolm Caldwell	|   CALDWELL_T@DARWIN.NTU.EDU.AU
MC> 	Darwin Australia	|FIDO  3:690/648.3

yours truly,
Lou Cavallo.  {Melbourne, Victoria, AUSTRALIA. U3364521@ucsvc.unimelb.edu.au}