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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: amiga users future...
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Date: 29 May 91 17:45:01 GMT
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rknop@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Robert Andrew Knop) writes:
>es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>In article <1991May27.210910.24220@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it> ele9056@cdc835.cdc.polimi.it (Alberto Schiavon) writes:
>>>What does commodore expect we to do when  (if the rumours I heard R true it
>>>will happen within the current year...) the A2000 will not be produced ?
>>>
>>	Commodore isn't THAT stupid.
>
>Remember, this is the Commdore that discontinued the 128 while continuing the
>64.
>
>-Rob Knop
>rknop@tybalt.caltech.edu


Hey, there were ALOT of good reasons to drop the 128.  

1:  nobody was developing software for it, since it had a 64 in it nobody
wanted to take a chance and develop just for the 128 (the same thing will
happen if cbm continues to support 1.3 in amiga's after 2.0 comes out)

2:
    After the fall of the berlin wall (and even before it, but not to so much
of an extent) the 64 passed the technology restrictions to let it be sold to
East Germany (back when it was around).  

3:  people stopped buying 128's when it became obvious that no software was
being written that wouldn't run on a 64.

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