Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!rex!ukma!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!udel!brahms.udel.edu!don From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: 8-bit death (was Re: What the heck IS "Interactive TV"?) Message-ID: <16928@chopin.udel.edu> Date: 16 Apr 91 11:17:32 GMT References: <5967@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Apr15.020525.26370@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 27 In article kuch@reed.bitnet (Jerry Kuch) writes: >I think the meaning that was intended is from the past, not the present. Of >course the 64 is no big deal today...8 bit micros are effectively DEAD! Find >a valid surviving computer that is in the C64's market now? The 8 bit micro >field is not current! Hanging on by its fingernails as it bleeds to death, >maybe... > "The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated..." CBM sold something in the neighborhood of 750,000 C64's last year. That's certainly not a thriving market, but it's far from a dead one. James Dionne, CBM's president (in the U.S.), said at the World of Amiga show not long ago that the 64 is "A machine that just won't die." Tell the millions of XT-clone users out there that the 8-bit market is dead. (Actually, IMHO, even a fast 486 qualifies as an 8-bit machine when it's running MS-DOS :-). Not intended as a flame or insult, just mild disagreement :-). -- Gibberish May the Publications Editor, AmigaNetwork is spoken fork() be Amiga Student On-Campus Consultant, U of D here. with you. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.