Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Toaster all over Keywords: Toasters in Used ads Message-ID: <2428@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 23 Dec 90 20:04:00 GMT Lines: 33 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In <1990Dec22.203552.25888@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, cag4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Carson A. Gaspar) writes: > >Hey, get your facts straight. NewTek released the Toaster a couple of >months late, not a couple of years. It was _leaked_ a couple of years >ago, but was only _officially_ announced fairly recently. NewTek >can't help what other people say. Say what? Showing it at shows, and saying "coming in ", seems to me to be an announcement. Calling their latest announcement an announcement, does not change the previous announcements one iota, regardless of what dictionary you wish to look in. > Many of us remember the "Laser >Toaster" joke that NewTek circulated as a cover story for any leaks. >Don't say bad things that have no basis in fact about a company that's >done so much for the amiga. What's the big deal? They announced it and showed it and announced it and showed it. Then for good measure, they repeated that a few times. When they got tired of that, they decided to say "We don't know when it will be ready", and "We haven't officially announced it yet". Nothing bad being said about them at all, unless you consider that the Toaster's position of vapourware set records to be particularly bad. -larry -- The best way to accelerate an MsDos machine is at 32 ft/sec/sec. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+