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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: AMIGA
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Date: 16 Jan 91 16:07:18 GMT
References: <1991Jan15.015644.24380@rice.edu> <1991Jan15.024807.25384@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <1991Jan15.201647.16637@rice.edu>
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In article <1991Jan15.201647.16637@rice.edu> jsd@elf.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube) writes:
>I was being sincere.  And yes, the Amiga is probably the best computer
>for multimedia (unless your willing to pay lots and lots of money).
>I think that once Amiga gets rid of its game-machine image it will
>really sell.  Probably the thing that would best help it would be high
>quality traditional productivity software (word-p, spreadsheet, etc.) 
>bundled free with the machine.

The Amiga will never shuck the "game machine" image.  Not as long as
Commodore sells the Amiga 500 for $499.  In fact it may not be in
Commodore's best interest to do so.  The A500 is the Premier Home
Computer, the C64 of the 90's, and as such it is selling well.  If the
A500 were dropped, then the Amiga would be rather in the place the NeXT
is now: a "business" computer with little software, small user base, and
highly questionable future.

The fact that the A2000, A2500, and A3000 are all still called "Amiga"
relates them to the A500.  Do you notice that everybody's main compatability
complaint with the A3000 is "it doesn't run all the games"? This
illustrates that it is perceived by many as the reigning king of game
computers, the only 32 bit game computer a homeowner can buy.

But the Amiga has the video niche all to itself. Hold on to this.  The
Amiga may make a showing in personal Unix workstations; this remains to
be seen.
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