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From: manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
Message-ID: <1120.286743b7@vger.nsu.edu>
Date: 25 Jun 91 17:23:02 GMT
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In article <1991Jun24.221425.398@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
> In article <1108.2865c128@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>> [my original comments deleted...]
>> 
> 	It is a hard decision, but we are talking about the
> future of the Amiga. Commodore currently has no computer for
> people who want a machine roughly equivalent to the Mac Classic
> 2/40 (or a 286) etc. There is the A500 with A590, which is too
> expensive (same price gets you 1MB RAM, slow 20MB HD on the Amiga
> and 2MB RAM and 40MB HD on the 500). Or you can go with the
> 2000HD, which also costs too much.

I think the solutions is to not really improve the hardware but rather
to repackage it.  We NEED the hardware developers!  The Amiga market
is too small to go to all SCSI based computers.  Commodore could 
rebuild the A2000 so that it costs them less, and while they are
there doing that, they could improve the look.

I want Commodore to concentrate on improving the hardware and the
software that they provide.  I can deal with the A3000 having a 
integrated SCSI and display enhancer because there was not a 
established developer base on 32 bit disk controllers and display
enhancers.  I realize that the display enhancer does hurt MicroWay, 
but they are only one developer, not a vast majority like the 
SCSI market is.
 
Yes, repackage the A2000 in a low-profile case like the A3000,
perhaps include the display enhancer and call it the Amiga 1500.
Modify the A2000 so that is looks better, integrate the display
enhancer and let it out as the Amiga 2001 or something.

> 	Somehow a mid-range Amiga with display enhancer needs to
> happen. And it needs to happen with a SCSI controller built in.
> Perhaps the A500 should remain without one, and leave GVP, etc.,
> that market. But this is too important for Commodore to worry
> about GVP and Supra. This is their future at hand.

Their future is coupled directly with the sucess of the developers.

> 	-- Ethan
> 
> FF buckets of bits on the bus,	FF buckets of bits.
> Take one down,			Pass it to ground,
> FE buckets of bits on the bus.

-mark=
manes@vger.nsu.edu