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From: cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Colin Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.060044.20167@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 10 Jun 91 06:00:44 GMT
References: <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Jun4.195056.1942@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
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In article <1991Jun4.195056.1942@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> pab@po.CWRU.Edu (Pete Babic) writes:
>
>In a previous article, taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) says:
>
>>   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.
>
>95% ?  Did you take a survey? Making such a statement is totally ridiculous.

Come off it. 95% is an understatement.  How many people on this net
have a toaster????? How many of the 500 owners (which is most of the
Amiga user base) in Europe who only use their machines for games and
are probably of average age ~17 are going to use a toaster??  I've
heard you need at least 9 megs to use some of the software with it
properly....  I put the figure more like 99.5 % of Amiga owners.

Simplitied algorithm of typical Amiga owner reading comp.sys.amiga.XXX

while letters remaining
	read a post
	if poster is Marc Barrett or poster is agreeing with Marc Barrett then
		Flame him no matter what he is saying
	else if I want to reply
		Follow up
end 

>-- 
>Pete Babic  -  pab@po.cwru.edu             ///


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Colin Adams                                  
Computer Science Department                     James Cook University 
Internet : cpca@marlin.jcu.edu.au               North Queensland
'And on the eighth day, God created Manchester'