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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
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Date: 15 Mar 91 18:32:48 GMT
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In article <17621@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <passaretti@crd.ge.com> writes:
>
>In article <1991Mar15.092920.16477@neon.Stanford.EDU> 
>torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:

>#  Apple has a better track record than Commodore of making products
>#available immediately upon announcement...  when was that OS 2.0
>#for non-3000 owners supposed to be available??
>
>Commodore has not yet announced the release of that product.
>Shall I repeat that?  Commodore employees have said that such a
>thing will, no doubt, happen, but there has been (as far as I
>know, and I read a LOT of the industry rags) no OFFICIAL
>announcement of a release date.  While this may be a fine point,

	This is not the case. Back when the A3000 was launched
last April, CBM sent out a press release claiming a September
shipment of 2.0. That makes then 6 months late. Of course, Mac
System 7.0 is a lot later than that.

>#Evan Torrie.  Stanford University, Class of 199?    torrie@cs.stanford.edu   
>
>#define CHEAP_SHOT
>
>Wait to you get out in the "Real World"(tm) before you start
>telling people who've been doing this for a living for years how
>the industry works, OK?
>
>#endif /* CHEAP_SHOT */
>
>                                                        - MM
>
>P.S. Sorry for the flamage, but the misinformation about 7.0 AND
>2.0 on the net is worse than anything Ollie and co. ever dreamed
>of.
>
>-- 
>passaretti@crd.ge.com                     {whatever}!crdgw1!brahe!passaret


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