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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 4 Jun 91 00:36:19 GMT
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In article <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu>, nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>In article <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>It's a damn shame too. I've tried to be optimistic about it, but the
>>more I wait, the darker the future seems.
>>
>
>
>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.

   Time for a reality check.  For 95% of the people in the Amiga community,
the Toaster is totally useless.  The Toaster is not going to save the
Amiga, because it is a product intended for a very limited purpose.  Few
Amiga owners have any need whatsoever for a special-effects box, and the
flickering display makes the Toaster unsuitable for other applications.

   The ECS isn't going to do much for the Amiga, either, because it was
obsolete before it even went into production.  The ECS is also 98% 
identical to the very oldest Amiga chipset.  
   
>
>
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