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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu
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Subject: Re: Future of 500 (was help on installing 1meg agnus)
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Date: 22 Oct 90 17:18:11 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.020502.7545@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu>, vidynath@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
> [Strange that there has no response to this.
> Note that followup has been directed to comp.sys.amiga]

I was very surprised.  In fact, I expected my mailbox to get flooded with
either 'you should not have posted that here ...' to 'your out of your 
tree, you must be competing for the MB Award.  (Just kidding Marc!)'

> 
> In article <62.2719a8e6@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu writes:
> [followingup article <90286.132554DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu> by
>  DXB132@psuvm.psu.edu, who was complaining about 1meg chip ram not being
>  supported on the 500]
> 
> I tried raising the 1500 idea way back in early 1988. There was a big 
> seperation in proce between 500 and 2000. Even then I was told that the cost
> of development was not worth it. Today C-A is better equipped to price of the
> 2000 agressively.

Looking at the techie side of this, I would agree that there is no real
need for a Amiga 1500, unless you consider the market.

Right now, I think we all agree, Commodore needs a strong answer to the
Macintosh Classic.  The Amiga 1500 fits perfectly.

> it was], it was better than the norm. I am sorry if C-A is indeed going to 
> leave the 500 owners in the lurch.

Not sure it is fair to say leave in a lurch.  Commodore is under no obligation
to *improve* a given product.  They are under obligation to *support* a 
product.  The Amiga 500 has a long future and bright future in my opinion.

> 
> There is only one good reason for not allowing the 1meg chip ram upgrade for 
> the 500: design limitations in the motherboard. [It is possible that too many

I disagree.  I think that the A500 must be technically different than a 2000
machine, not just looks.

> 
> There was one commercial that made a deep impression on me when I first came
> to the US: It was a car rental company that said "When you are number two,
> you try harder." At that time I thought that Indian exporters shold live by
> that credo. Now I wish that C-A would think that way too.

I wish Commodore was number 2, but since they are not I suspect they are
scrambling to keep their dealers and to enhance the product line without
a lot of Research and Development.  The A1500 and the A3500 is probably
the result of this effort.  Not to mention filling a void in the Amiga
market.

Sometimes you have to make hard decisions with limited dollars.

> 
> --
> Vidhyanth Rao			It is the man, not the method, that solves
> function.mps.ohio-state.edu	the problem. - Henri Poincare
>     (614)-366-9341		[as paraphrased by E. T. Bell]

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