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From: jsd@elf.rice.edu (Shawn Joel Dube)
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Subject: Re: AMIGA
Message-ID: <1991Jan15.201647.16637@rice.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 91 20:16:47 GMT
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In article <1991Jan15.024807.25384@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>, rjc@pogo.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
|> 
|>  I seriously doubt you were being sincere in saying something nice. Everyone
|> knows the 'game machine' image is something Amiga has been trying to get
|> rid of for years. Its more of an insult. The Amiga does have great games,
|> but that's not all it is, clearly its one of the best multimedia machines
|> around, and has enjoyed a great hardware architecture for years, before the
|> NeXT was even dreamed of.
|> 

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.