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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 05:31:44 GMT
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In article <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
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>Back in 1986 when I signed on with the Amiga out of pure amazement at
>what I saw, I was certain Commodore had caught the ball poised for a
>major touchdown. They would seem to have fumbled the ball all over the
>end zone. Even Jay Minor, father of the Amiga, doesn't see the machine
>as ever becoming anything great now. It's too little too late. We were
>ahead of the game, but we just sat around and watched the world rush
>past. It's only a matter of time before Microsoft manages to get
>Windows working well enough to make it easy to use the IBM.
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>It's a damn shame too. I've tried to be optimistic about it, but the
>more I wait, the darker the future seems.
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I would give it a little more time.  The Toaster just came out.  2.0 and
the ECS is about to come out.  And I'll bet it cost a lot of money to get
CDTV started.  You might be right, but I wouldn't place any bets until
about a year from now.


                                        NCW