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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.marketplace
Subject: Re: Amiga portable
Keywords: I need a portable
Message-ID: <22000@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 29 May 91 16:11:59 GMT
References: <1991May25.052348.7470@ncsu.edu> <1991May7.170158.10700@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991May8.163106.25609@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <21864@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2466@cluster.cs.su.oz.au>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2466@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> force@minnie.cs.su.OZ.AU (Jason Henry Den Dulk) writes:
>The last I heard was that the amiga portable was scraped due to legal
>problems. 

What Amiga portable?  There aren't any likely legal problems for C= or a third
party building such a beast, if they approach it properly.  Witness the Mac
market.  Apple actively tried to discourage non-Apple Macs, but still this 
laptop "DynaMac" was done by a 3rd party, by canniblizing Macs.  C= hasn't
announced any plans to do a portable.  I suspect any third party project that
was cancelled was cancelled as a "business decision", not a "legal problem".

>I know this a blow to the amiga community, considering the increased 
>popularity of laptops, but it happens. 

An Amiga battery-operated laptop, at present, is impossible.  Amigas eat too
much juice.  Doesn't matter who makes it.

>We really should press Commodore to market a wider range of machines, 
>including '020s (on the motherboard) and laptops, 

Hey, you got '030s on the motherboard, whaddya need '020s for?  As for laptops,
we'd all like them too.  Maybe some day...

>but knowing how slack Commodore is, I doubt this would ever happen.

Hey, since WHEN has SLACK been a problem?  What are you, PINK or something.


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