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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: 4 Jun 91 17:25:01 GMT
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murphy@gibbs.physics.purdue.edu (William J. Murphy) writes:
>In article <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
>>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
>
>I just don't get it.  I remember a year ago or so when the A3000 came out.
>Didn't it have both 2.0 and 1.3 ROMS?  Although 2.0 ROMs weren't finalized,
>Why has it taken C= a year to produce those chips for retrofit into A2000s and
>A500s?  Will the entire ECS be available for <A3000 machines?  You would
>think that C= would get on the ball.  This is almost getting to be as bad 
>as Steven Jobs' NeXT initial announcement.
>

You really don't know what your talking about do you?  It really steams me
when people flame CBM with rumors, incorect information, and inuendo.  if you
had been paying ANY attention to these newsgroups, even if you had walked down
to your local dealer and asked some questions, or even if you had called cbm
and asked them (they have an 800 number for this sort of thing), you would
know that the 3000 never had either 2.0 or 1.3 roms.  you would know that cbm
is STILL DEVELOPING 2.0, you would know that the ecs will be available
 and you would know that things are moving at cbm.  What do you want cbm to do
detail their entire financial future, technological advances, and give away
all their trade secrets just so YOU can feel reasured?  forget it.  in this
business secrecy is the name of the game, or else you get scooped to the
punch.

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