Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pyrdc!grebyn!ckp From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Anyone actually own an 040 Amiga? Message-ID: <1991May15.104832.23254@grebyn.com> Date: 15 May 91 10:48:32 GMT References: <1991May13.113026@alamo.Berkeley.EDU> <1991May14.024619.28101@grebyn.com> <19528@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Organization: Grebyn Timesharing Lines: 28 In article <19528@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> writes: > >In article <1991May14.024619.28101@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com >(Checkpoint Technologies) writes: ># ># So, to make a long [ long long... ] story short - No one has an '040 ># Amiga, because they aren't to be had. > >To make a short story somewhat longer. Wrong. They do exist. >They do work. They are pretty blinking amazingly fast too. >Just because YOU can't get one right now, doesn't mean they >aren't to be had. Production quantities of approved and >tested and blessed products are another beast all together.... I'll rephrase... No one within the sound of my voice (er, withing sight of my posting) has an '040 Amiga. If anyone did, they would speak up. There are apparently two camps. One says "if I can't buy it it doesn't exist", or at least "if I can't buy it, I shouldn't let it color my buying decision". This is a conservative view. There is the other camp which says "if there's a semi-working prototype, it exists, and I'm willing to let this fact alter my buying decision". This view is somewhat more risky, because the prototype may never become a commercial product at all. But this is more fun to talk about. -- Richard Krehbiel, private citizen ckp@grebyn.com (Who needs a fancy .signature?)