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From: mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Revised Amiga line
Keywords: amiga, expand, evolve, endure, open, support
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Date: 30 Apr 91 23:54:10 GMT
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In article <1991Apr30.042423.5721@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <4424@bnr-rsc.UUCP> mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason) writes:
>>
>>Open, expandable systems are necessary, although not sufficient, for long
>>term success and productivity.
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>
>	So what's your point? The A2000 has 9 slots and 3 drive
>bays. Sounds expandable to me. And Commodore is hardly the only
>company making Amiga expansion hardware. 
>	And you are saying that because a machine is bought
>mainly by people who play games that the machineis a game
>machine. 

Lighten up Ethan. I may have an A1000, but I haven't time warped back
anyware. This is another one of those "what CBM really should do next"
threads. The theme of this thread is "CBM really needs to provide a
less expensive alternative to the A500 by removing all expansion
capability". I favour the A2000, A3000, A3000UX direction.

No, of course the Amiga is not a game machine because many people
play games on it. The A500 is more of a game machine because it is
expensive and difficult to build a full-featured productivily 
machine out of it. Again, if CBM only made the A500 and cheaper
bretheren, I would expect the Amiga line to die out once technology
significantly surpassed it.
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