Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Amiga 3000UX, X, OpenLook, Motif, Color, A2410, Etc. (somewhat long) Message-ID: <3KHASM9@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <1991Apr3.231414.23689@uvm.edu> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 91 18:23:34 GMT In article <1991Apr3.231414.23689@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes: > Most all of this has been fixed now, send flames to .advocacy ok? This isn't a flame... it's a simple statement of fact. The Atari ST was sufficiently compelling a product that people did buy them when it looked like the Amiga was stalled. I got an Atari ST from one such person when he finally got an Amiga. The point I was trying to make is simply that if Commodore hadn't shipped something there wouldn't have been *any* market left for them to sell Amiga 1000s to. And the phrase "victim" is entirely appropriate. My buddy and I were both victims of the "my god, Commodore, when ARE you going to ship" syndrome. If they hadn't shipped when they did, we'd be using TOS now. (luckily I had little enough invested in the Atari I could get an Amiga without cringing) > In > any case, I've had to do less to my Atari to keep current than I would > have if I had gotten a 1000 - rather a sad commentary on Atari and > Commodore both, for different reasons. My Amiga 1000 is still, as of today, "current". And I haven't done anything to it. I'll have to do the first upgrade, five years later, when 2.0 comes out. Not bad. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"